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Government has no clue how to get us out of this economic crisis, so perhaps it should ask Thabo Mbeki to help develop a social compact
Two weeks ago all three of SA’s living past presidents — Thabo Mbeki, Kgalema Motlanthe and Jacob Zuma — criticised Cyril Ramaphosa’s leadership of the country on the same weekend. At the start of the following week, on the Kaya FM drive show, presenter Sizwe Dhlomo asked the members of his team and listeners to rank the performance of all four presidents.
Mbeki was ranked highest. Motlanthe was second because he had not been president long enough to cause damage, they said. Two of the members of Dhlomo’s team had Zuma and Ramaphosa as joint third. Dhlomo said: “So yeah, last on my list will have to be Cyril, who I had such high hopes for but there’s just too much that he’s getting away with that doesn’t sit well with me. He cut me deep, it’s like not only did he stab me in the back but he twisted the knife just to make sure I won’t survive.”..
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