RON DERBY: President has a single term to repair our broken economy
Calls from Luthuli House for a new Reserve Bank mandate and a cut in interest rates only add to the policy uncertainty hobbling SA
At best, an ANC president has no more than eight years as state president. Precedent has been set within that party from its recall of former presidents Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma.
There’s no 10-year term limit for any leader of the governing party, as there is for the state president. But even the second term as party president is now a highly contested space, and I’d imagine no longer a guarantee. Given the divisions within the ANC it would be near impossible to align the party’s elective conference to that of national polls because it would in practice mean extending the reign of its president for a further two years. God forbid...
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