JABULANI SIKHAKHANE: Like the apartheid state, the ANC asks for time and more time
Ramaphosa’s government is depleting whatever stock of understanding and patience remains among South Africans
Successive ANC administrations have become increasingly like their apartheid predecessors, prolific producers of material their political opponents and the electorate can use against them. The next national and provincial elections are no longer for the ANC to lose but for the opposition to win. But that’s a story for another day.
Where the apartheid regimes passed discriminatory and oppressive laws and gave them sharper teeth through effective and brutal implementation, ANC governance failures over the past 15 years have become legend, along with the brazen theft of public funds — including the distortion of public policies to create opportunities for fraud and corruption...
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