PETER BRUCE: Ramaphosa needs Madonsela to chop the head off corruption
'Just because Ramaphosa doesn't say much doesn't mean he isn't working furiously at winning'
'Supra won't go quietly," says the newspaper headline. The story is presumably about the coming demise of North West premier Supra Mahumapelo, who has been the target of violent protests in recent weeks. Protesters claim he is corrupt. The National Treasury has effectively taken over the province's treasury and health department, and the ANC's national working committee has decided that he should be removed as premier. That decision has to go through a few processes, including, last Friday, a direct appeal to resign as premier from President Cyril Ramaphosa. It is very likely irreversible. It is easy, surveying our current politics, to become dismayed by the complexity of almost every single issue. Ramaphosa is trying to renew a party that is shot through with corruption and self-gratification.But simply because we cannot foresee the outcomes of events already in motion does not mean Ramaphosa is failing. Look, he may well be failing, but the evidence isn't there. What is there is e...
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