KHAYA SITHOLE: Leading the ANC means not leading the country
In just more than two weeks President Cyril Ramaphosa will celebrate the fourth anniversary of his ascendance to the top job in the governing ANC. This came after a bruising campaign that pitted him against Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma — or rather, the factions aligned with them took each other on.
The promise of reform underpinning the Ramaphosa ticket, labelled the New Dawn, was touted as a statement of intent signalling how he planned to lead the party, and ultimately SA. At its core, the message seemed important. The ANC had descended into a motley crew of factions and hangers-on united less by ideological patterns than patronage persuasions. Its descent into chaos had inevitably filtered through to the state at large, where many of the variables necessary for a functional state had been gradually undermined...
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