Energy and Electricity Minister Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa.
Energy and Electricity Minister Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa live lambasting EFF leader Sello Malema and labelling him an Oxymoron.
Energy and Electricity Minister Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa walloped opposition parties’ motormouths, demagogues, narcissists and oxymorons who censored President Cyril Ramaphosa’s first speech as a leader of the 7th administration Government of National Unity (GNU) at the National Assembly on Friday.
Dr Ramokgopa was the sweeper of ANC Opening of Parliament Address (OPA) debate team who intellectually processed, Dr John Hlophe, Chief Whip of former President Jacob Zuma’s new political toy MK Party, Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema and his lieutenant Floyd Shivhambu and the forever loud utterer Barack Obama want to be, Mmusi Maimane leader of Build One South Africa (BOSA).
Ramokgopa said it will be disingenuous for Dr Hlophe to make a point that the scholars of political science suggest that GNU are constructed only to respond to emergencies or a crisis. “I want to suggest to you that there are contemporaneous studies that suggest that GNU are not only formed because of crisis or emergency but the possibility of collectively pursuing an opportunity that presents itself in the context of a geopolitical crisis. I am making this point because as the good doctor will know, we have both an intellectual and academic responsibility to surface alternatives or counterviews when we proceed an argument. In fact, what you have done amounts to an intellectually and academically incompetent argument. I’m saying this with the greatest of respect and it is important that we are able to pull this together,” Dr Ramokgopa reprimanded Dr Hlophe.
When taking a jab at Maimane and Malema, the intellectually pregnant Dr Ramokgopa said the ANC will never change its character of emancipating people from all forms of depression despite being part of GNU.
“The ANC entered into this arrangement, and it has not lost its character. We always have the following view. In our characterisation of South African conflict, that is underpinned by three interrelated and antagonistic contradictions of race, class and gender…I want to say to honourable Maimane, we are not all over the place. We simply identify the three priorities’…I’ll unpack those. As I confront what I refer to as the Malema oxymoron…what do I mean when I say the Malema oxymoron,” Dr Ramokgopa said.
“So, it is acceptable for the EFF to enter into an arrangement with the DA and other parties to displace the ANC in Tshwane, Ekurhuleni and Johannesburg but when we do that we get to be labelled. The oxymoron (referring to Malema) goes further, he makes the following point, he says that this is a sellout arrangement and essentially what President Matamela Ramaphosa delivered yesterday was authored by the Oppenheimers. And in the same argument he says but this is the repeat of what President Matamela has been saying all along, so this articulation really belongs to us, it is the originality, so that is the oxymoron I’m referring to.”
He also told Shivambu to refrain from speaking in tongues, politicking without facts but be prepared to learn before making hogwash statements.
Dr Ramokgopa said that on the occasion of the Inaugural Lekgotla of the 7th administration, the President made an inspired decision to invite one of the most preeminent and prolific political economist scholars in the country Mr JP Langman who said the country is on the right path despite the challenges following Covid 19 and job losses.
Energy and Electricity Minister said: “Langman delivered a compelling paper titled, from crisis to opportunity, a path to sustainable growth. That decision is inspired into two levels. It is important to invite outside parties who will be able to provide a critical analysis, a critique of the performance of the South African economy and we are able to get better inside on how to improve the situation going into the future...There has to be a great appreciation.”
Best speaker of the day, Energy and Electricity Minister Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa lambasting President Cyril Ramaphosa's political rivals.
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