Why would Ramaphosa welcome Malema back when there’s so much else to do?
If the president wants to set SA straight he needs to focus on developing workable economic policies in our industrial sectors, writes Mark Allix
Judge Dennis Davis, chair of the Davis Tax Committee, recently told a small business indaba in Johannesburg that while the political climate under new President Cyril Ramaphosa suggests SA has turned a corner, "It’s perfectly obvious we’ve got a hell of a long way to go". He’s not kidding. Ramaphosa is seemingly welcoming Julius Malema back into the arms of the ANC, despite the EFF commander-in-chief’s purported disdain for such a move, and the fact that the new president was instrumental in kicking him out of the party in the first place. There is more bad blood. Malema called Ramaphosa a "murderer" responsible for the killing of mine workers in Marikana, before being booted out of Parliament. This raises the question of how much a seemingly urbane Ramaphosa fears losing the 2019 election. A lot, it appears. More recently, Malema has been censured for wanting to "cut the throat of whiteness", while making references to genocide and other colourful metaphors. That the ANC should wan...
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