President Cyril Ramaphosa, respected for his diplomacy and consensus building, has been exposed in the harshest of lights. The budget delay — a first in the country’s history — reveals a leader struggling to co-govern. And finance minister Enoch Godongwana and his ANC cohorts should have known better.
In the absence of evidence to refute the DA assertion that it was not formally informed, Godongwana and Ramaphosa’s blind adherence to tradition and last-minute negotiations smacks of hubris and mismanagement. The reality is that the ANC is no longer the omnipotent force it was, but rather, part of a diverse political coalition...
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