President Ramaphosa’s Future in the Hands of Makashule Gana
Afternoon Drive with John Maytham · 2 June 2026 · 7m
Speaker 1: Let's go straight to our top story now and daily Mavericks faeryel Hafiji is written Speaker 1: today. Makashu Legana is the man with President Rama Pasa's head in his hands. Riizin Speaker 1: Zanzi MP. Macashu Legana will chair the impeachment committee that will decide the president's future. Speaker 1: She joins us now on the line from Johannesburg. Fayel, thank you so much for Speaker 1: joining us. What do we know about Marcashu Legana. Speaker 2: Hi Amy, Makashula Gana is a very seasoned politician. He's young, but he has had Speaker 2: a long career in politics and he he comes from anc Structures the Essay student Speaker 2: Congress. Very soon after that, he decided to throw his hat in the ring for Speaker 2: the DA as a student leader and then got very very far up the party Speaker 2: ranks. He left when he didn't win a leadership contest. He then joined Verism Zanci. Speaker 2: So he's somebody who connects with people very well. He's a real networker and he Speaker 2: has good relationships across the spectrum. Well, let's he told me in an interview yesterday, Speaker 2: what. Speaker 1: In your opinion makes him a good choice to be the leader of this impeachment Speaker 1: committee. Speaker 2: I think you have to have the buy in of the various parts of the Speaker 2: political spectrum, those parties which are in the Government of National Unity, and also the Speaker 2: sizeable body of parties which are outside of it. So he won, I thought, with Speaker 2: a healthy majority. And it seems like he has learned from the political theatrics we Speaker 2: saw on the ad hoc committee at Parliament. That…
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