BRYAN ROSTRON: The ANC and the art of waiting for something to turn up
03 February 2023 - 05:00
And so we stumble into yet another year with a government seemingly incapable of making a plan, while public expectations plummet as fast as ANC polling numbers. Some ministers remain lost in the past, and as a collective the cabinet has no new ideas.
The slogan for the ANC in 2023 seems to be that of Charles Dickens’ Wilkins Micawber in David Copperfield, obstinately optimistic even after a spell in debtor’s prison. As his woes proliferate and with no solution in sight, invariably Micawber promises his destitute family “something will turn up!” ..
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