Never say never, Ramaphosa tells FF Plus MP
5 August 2016
Pretoria – FF Plus MP Pieter Groenewald told ANC Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa that a coalition between the two parties would not work because the ANC was a “scorpion”.
Ramaphosa, during a walkabout at the IEC’s elections result centre on Friday, stopped at the FF Plus’s table to talk to Groenewald, who had been staffing the table on and off over the past two days.
"Never say never, never, never,” Ramaphosa was overheard telling Groenewald, who in turn told Ramaphosa the tale of the tortoise and the scorpion crossing the river.
In the middle, the scorpion stung the tortoise, saying he did so because it was in his nature. They both sank.