Professor Mamogkethi set tongues wagging after posing with Cyril Ramaphosa. Images via Twitter: @@FabAcademic

Professor Mamogkethi set tongues wagging after posing with Cyril Ramaphosa. Images via Twitter: @FabAcademic

Phakeng poses with Ramaphosa, SA asks: ‘Does he have a spine?’

‘Where is the First Lady when you holding her husband like that,’ one person wrote after seeing Phakeng’s snap with Ramaphosa.

Professor Mamogkethi set tongues wagging after posing with Cyril Ramaphosa. Images via Twitter: @@FabAcademic

Professor Mamogkethi set tongues wagging after posing with Cyril Ramaphosa. Images via Twitter: @FabAcademic

Former University of Cape Town vice chancellor Mamokgethi Phakeng recently left tongues wagging after posing with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa. In the snap, the pair are smiling widely as they hold hands.

The post went close to viral as hundreds of South Africans rushed to the comment section to share their thoughts of the pair looking so chummy. Others wondered why she didn’t ask him about the electricity crisis and his plans to better the country’s economy.

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Prof Phakeng stuns in snap with Ramaphosa, turns many heads

Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng knows how to get people buzzing on Twitter and has just done it again.

The former UCT VC shared a photo of herself looking quite comfortable around the country’s president and it instantly garnered thousands of likes.

Following early retirement reports UCT vice-chancellor Mamokgethi Phakeng
Mamokgethi Phakeng had tongues wagging with her President Ramaphosa post. Image via Twitter/@Ori_RSA

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Taking to the app on Friday 28 April, Phakeng shared the snap which she captioned:

“With the Grand Patron of the National Orders😃”

Take a look at the post below:

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Mzansi gets to talking

The post instantly blew up as hundreds of social media users flocked to the comment section to to share their thoughts on seeing Phakeng with the president.

A number of them asked her to either “klap” the president or question him about load shedding. Others shared the famous photo she once took with ex-president Jacob Zuma.

Take a look at their comments below:

“Where is the First Lady when you holding her husband like that,” wrote one person. Another commented:

“Ask him why that flag fell on him and why is he still president and also ask him when is load shedding ending and also please ask him we’ve had enough of the prices going up in South Africa and also please ask him which car is he driving so I can plan properly”

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