Cyril Ramaphosa foils Ace Magashule parliament 'coup'

Ramaphosa scuttles Magashule bid to pack committees with Zuma-ites

16 June 2019 - 00:07 By ANDISIWE MAKINANA, QAANITAH HUNTER and THABO MOKONE

President Cyril Ramaphosa moved decisively this week to head off an apparent plot by ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule to engineer a "parliamentary coup"...

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