Ramaphosa rebukes South African minister who slammed constitution

It has failed to embrace "especially the poor, the disenfranchised, the marginalised, she argued.

In Summary

• Tourism Minister Lindiwe Sisulu launched her extraordinary attack on both the judiciary and the constitution in opinion pieces on the Independent Online (IOL) news site in recent days.

• The 67-year-old veteran minister is widely seen as a likely candidate to square off against Ramaphosa if he seeks a second term as ANC leader at the party's next conference scheduled for December.

In her latest article on Sunday Sisulu attacked, for the second consecutive weekend, the ground-breaking post-apartheid constitution, saying that it had has not helped improve the lot of the majority of black South Africans still living in poverty.

It has failed to embrace "especially the poor, the disenfranchised, the marginalised, she argued.

"It has failed in its primary function regardless of how it may offend us to accept such."

Without directly referring to Sisulu's article, Ramaphosa stressed the "need to protect our constitution, our democratic state and the electoral process from anyone who wants to weaken our democracy".

By AFP.

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