ANTHONY BUTLER: The troublemakers don’t fear you, Mr President
Cyril Ramaphosa seems to be in office, not really in power — but the good news is his authority can grow
02 August 2019 - 05:08
In the national and provincial elections in early 2019, many ANC voters believed they were delivering a “mandate” to President Cyril Ramaphosa.
The ANC had little option but to place corruption at the centre of its campaign. Continuing the narrative that helped Ramaphosa to secure the ANC presidency in December 2017, he was portrayed as the leader of the “Good ANC”. This grouping, whose boundaries and membership remained uncertain, was ostensibly determined to end the rot left by the “Bad ANC” of the Jacob Zuma years...
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