Kodwa comes down on Rupert March 28, 2016 0 <http://www.thenewage.co.za/kodwa-comes-down-on-rupert/#respond> 439 Share on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenewage.co.za%2Fkodwa-comes-down-on-rupert%2F>
Tweet on Twitter <https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=Kodwa+comes+down+on+Rupert&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenewage.co.za%2Fkodwa-comes-down-on-rupert%2F&via=The+New+Age> <http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://www.thenewage.co.za/kodwa-comes-down-on-rupert/> <http://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=http://www.thenewage.co.za/kodwa-comes-down-on-rupert/&media=http://www.thenewage.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Zizi-Kodwa.jpg> - - <http://www.thenewage.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Zizi-Kodwa.jpg>Kodwa comes down on Johann Rupert. Picture: Gallo Images. “HE IS an imperialist who continues to fund the DA.” This was ANC national spokesperson Zizi Kodwa’s reaction to business tycoon Johann Rupert’s call last week for President Jacob Zuma to step down. Labelling Rupert as “arrogant white monopoly capitalist and a hardcore admirer of apartheid”, Kodwa said that the party was not shocked by the businessman’s remarks and will expose him this week. “Over a long period he has been unduly trying to influence government policies through funding non-government organisations. He is an arrogant white monopoly capitalist who benefited from apartheid and the colonial system. We are aware of all that, we are going to unmask him this week. He is an imperialist who continues to fund the DA. He doesn’t understand democracy as he benefited from the apartheid regime,” Kodwa said. Kodwa said that Rupert’s remarks “made the call for every ANC member who is influenced or captured by businesses to come forward more relevant”. SACP spokesperson Alex Mashilo said: “He (Rupert) must not think he has more democratic rights than everyone else as we know he largely benefited from apartheid.” Rupert was reportedly responding to allegations he called Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa to a meeting soon after Zuma had appointed Des van Rooyen as finance minister. Ramaphosa denied meeting Rupert. Ramaphosa’s spokesperson, Ronnie Mamoepa, said the deputy president denied ever having such a meeting with Rupert, Trevor Manuel and Maria Ramos or any other business persons to discuss cabinet appointments. “The only time Deputy President Ramaphosa engaged himself with the matter of the finance ministry was during the meeting of the top six ANC officials with President Jacob Zuma on the Sunday leading to the appointment of Pravin Gordhan as the finance minister,” Mamoepa said. Rupert is the chairperson of luxury goods company Richemont. He serves as non-executive chairperson of VenFin and Remgro. Rupert also owns the L’Ormarins wine estate. Attempts to obtain comment from Rupert through his company’s PR agency were unsuccessful. *-Peter Ramothwala* -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
