REALLY ? South Africa deputy president admits to cheating on his wife

Hehehe............South Africa’s Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa who is vying to replace President Jacob Zuma has admitted to having an extramarital affair.
Details of his alleged affairs with as many as eight women were splashed on Sunday newspapers in South Africa, after the business man turned politician failed to gag media from publishing the story in a late night urgent court application.

The Sunday Independent newspaper published a front page article alleging they had details of alleged relations between Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa – who is married with children – and approximately eight women.
The newspaper shared private details, such as the fact that one of the women had suffered a miscarriage. These reports sparked a backlash in South Africa with many rebuking the Deputy President.
Responding to the allegations today, Ramaphosa denied cheating with eight women but admitted to having one affair with his medical doctor which he says he told his wife eight years ago and then ended the relationship.

“I had a relationship with only one person and it ended. I dealt with it with my wife. We now have a professional relationship,” Ramaphosa told Sunday Times.

The 64-year-old Ramaphosa and Zuma’s ex-wife Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma have come out as front runners to replace Zuma when he steps down as ANC president in December.

Ramaphosa said the report which is based on leaked email correspondence between himself and the women was a “smear campaign” ahead of the crucial elective conference.

“I have to be prevented at all costs from ascending to the position of president of the ANC. Some have even said it will be over their dead bodies.
“I have not committed any crimes, I have not stolen any money, I have not looted state resources. But I am being targeted and smeared,” he said.
“There are 54 young students – both men and women – that my wife and I provide financial assistance to on a monthly basis and have done so for several years. It is unfortunate that evidence of these bank transfers have been used to make scandalous allegations against me and, worse, to make public the names of some of the people assisted.”
“We find it disturbing that the privacy of these young women has been violated through the publication of their names and pictures on social media. It shows a callous disregard for the rights of the individual.”

Ramaphosa is the latest high ranking South African politicians to be implicated in a sex scandal. President Zuma was himself in 2005 tried and later acquitted for rape of a 31-year-old daughter of a friend.
Several other ministers in Zuma’s cabinet have had sex scandals but never resigned from their jobs.