Presidency claims Ramaphosa answered Phala Phala question

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The Presidency is "concerned" after "claims made in the National Assembly" that President Cyril Ramaphosa refused to answer a question on Phala, Ramaphosa's spokesperson Vincent Magwenya said in a statement on Wednesday.

This follows Tuesday's question session, where Ramaphosa refused to answer the question on Phala Phala.

"On a proper reading of the question, President Ramaphosa did, in fact, answer the question," alleged Maggwenya."

The President responded that he stands ready to take the nation into his confidence and that he would do so through the due legal and Parliamentary processes."

 

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Well, his response did tell me everything I need to know, so he’s got a point.
 

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Bleh until there is transparency we do not believe anything and even then not.
 

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Well, it is true that he answered the question asked. Just maybe not in the way the opposition would have preferred, but answered they were.
 

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Cyril and the entire ANC clan are about as honourable as that pungent stuff that accumulates under my big toe nail.
 

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Well, it is true that he answered the question asked. Just maybe not in the way the opposition would have preferred, but answered they were.
True. But not answering truthfully doesn't help at all. Like ANC cadres are able to speak the truth lol...

I didn't expect him to answer anything at all. He knows he fcked up. He is just waiting for police "report" to craft the story to fit the police report...
 

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And that is the problem largely. Parliament are supposed to make him answer the question, not merely respond to it, but the ANC are not able to do that sort of accountability.
The only form of responsibility the ANC understands is that they know that white people are largely responsible for paying for everything in the country.
 

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The only form of responsibility the ANC understands is that they know that white people are largely responsible for paying for everything in the country.
What nonsense.
You'll probably understand this better: The ANC won't hold their president to account in the same way that the GOP wouldn't do for Trump and voted to acquit him. It is the self serving nature of politics.
 

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What nonsense.
You'll probably understand this better: The ANC won't hold their president to account in the same way that the GOP wouldn't do for Trump and voted to acquit him. It is the self serving nature of politics.
Not really.

Trump's major weakness in office is that he didn't have any meaningful influence over the GOP, especially when they had control over the house, senate and presidency. He got to the presidency despite pretty much the entire GOP aristocracy being against him. They only tacitly gave him support.

The biggest piece of legislation he needed to pass was to gut ObamaCare. But the GOP in the senate tanked it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Health_Care_Act_of_2017
 

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Not really.

Trump's major weakness in office is that he didn't have any meaningful influence over the GOP, especially when they had control over the house, senate and presidency. He got to the presidency despite pretty much the entire GOP aristocracy being against him. They only tacitly gave him support.

The biggest piece of legislation he needed to pass was to gut ObamaCare. But the GOP in the senate tanked it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Health_Care_Act_of_2017
Point is they supported and shielded him because they were hitched to the same wagon as him. If they'd let him be impeached they'd have had to admit that he was a disaster. They even supported him through the stolen election thing - well, some started to drift off muttering at that point. The health care thing is probably another area where they felt he's over the line. Their inner conservative couldn't let that pass, but they otherwise supported him because they were stuck with him. Same with what the ANC are doing and that is despite the fact that about half of their elected reps would want CR to be toppled but they want him gone their way.
 
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