Amid growing public disillusionment with his leadership and calls from the commentariat for him to step down, President Cyril Ramaphosa gave a fighting speech at the SA Communist Party (SACP) conference last week. “I will not be intimidated, nor distracted, nor bullied into distraction,” he said.     

But the speech had no focus. It was all over the place, covering everything from the concentration of the economy to the need for a summit to discuss the economy and the elusive social compact that was supposed to have been completed 100 days after his state of the nation address...

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