JONNY STEINBERG: With a credible leader, RET could displace Ramaphosa’s mediocracy
The president’s opponents are organisationally astute, and well entrenched
07 July 2022 - 13:41
Things are the wrong way around in the ANC. You would expect President Cyril Ramaphosa’s faction to be better at organisation than the radical economic transformation (RET) faction. And the RETs should by rights be better than Ramaphosa’s people at politics.
After all, Ramaphosa’s project is to reassemble a functioning bureaucracy, restore technocratic authority to government and bring a semblance of rationality back into public life. These are questions of organisation...
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