EDITORIAL: ANC: the moment has arrived — for Ramaphosa
The party’s and country’s leader has to show that he is not a lame-duck president
16 February 2021 - 05:09
The ANC has finally adopted the guidelines on how to deal with members and leaders facing charges involving serious misdemeanours, but it has again kicked the proverbial can down the road by giving itself another month before these are implemented.
In the meantime, it is expecting members like its secretary-general, Ace Magashule, to do the right thing and act with “integrity and credibility” by voluntarily stepping aside. But it is unlikely that those in the firing line will do so, and it will in all likelihood be business as usual until the guidelines are formally implemented...
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