Cape Town – After leaving the EFF and stepping away from politics, Mbuyiseni Ndlozi has asserted that President Cyril Ramaphosa is not a puppet of white supremacy.
In an interview with SABC News, Ndlozi reflected on his past views, acknowledging that while Ramaphosa was once seen as aligned with white capitalist interests, his recent actions suggest otherwise.
Ndlozi pointed to Ramaphosa’s strong stance against Western influence, his government’s action against Israel at The Hague, and policies such as the Expropriation Act and the NHI, arguing that these moves challenge both domestic and global white capitalist structures.
“We grew up in the circles of left wing, thinking left wing formations within the mass democratic movement. In those circles, President Cyril Ramaphosa is characterised as part of the white South Africa’s capitalist establishment and the fact that he became a billionaire, didn’t help.
“And certainly, part of that discourse is certainly that he will always act in the interest of the white capitalist establishment. His emails in Marikana did not help because he characterised workers as criminals, justifying the action that then occurred in the Marikana massacre. The CR17 statements did not help to find the names of these capitalists who have funded his ANC internal campaign.”
However, Ndlozi now observes a change in Ramaphosa’s actions. He said: “But who would have thought? If there was anything that I would have bet against, it would be the idea that one day, it would be Ramaphosa who says ‘keep your America and I will keep my South Africa’ to the most powerful man in the world, togetehr with the richest man in the world, in defence of nil compensation.
This man is not what we have been told he is. He is truly up to something. Of all SA heads of state, he has come out as the most committed to policies that matter for the most genuine transformation of the living conditions of our people.
– NHI
– BELA…— Mbuyiseni Ndlozi (@MbuyiseniNdlozi) February 3, 2025
“Of course from ourselves at radical left, it’s not enough. The Expropriaction Act doesn’t go enough. But you are not just looking at the Act. There’s the Palestinian matter — Ramaphosa’s government did not just condemn the Gaza bombardment by Israel; it stated Israel is a genocidal state and took them to The Hague. No white puppet acts like that, coupled with the Bela Bill, the NHI and all these policies have disrupted [the] domestic and global white capitalist establishment.”
Despite facing criticism for praising Ramaphosa after years of opposition, Ndlozi dismissed the backlash, saying leaders should not be judged one-dimensionally.
“Many people accepted there is this new information about Ramaphosa, which forces us not to read people in one dimension,” he said.
Now stepping away from party politics, he plans to contribute to civil society and academia.
“I’m leaving party politics and will contribute to academia. It’s time somebody did for the people what AfriForum is doing for the Afrikaners. That is the civil society space that one is having a conversation and thinking about,” Ndlozi said.
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