Peter Bruce’s Pollyanna piece, “For the Sake of the Country, Stand With the ANC’s Principled People” (April 11), begs a response. After months of sycophantic cheerleading for Cyril Ramaphosa, Bruce was at least finally forced to concede that Ramaphosa was weak, complicit, dithered and stood by as the country was looted. Despite this, he now doubles down and says SA must turn a blind eye to this as Ramaphosa was merely “playing the long game”. The Bruce doctrine is littered with flaws bigger than a Bosasa bribe. How can South Africans vote for a party and president who, as even Bruce admits, stood idly by observing the worst excesses of the Zuma years? Trillions were wiped out from our economy through state capture, Nkandla and the Guptas. Our state-owned entities were reduced to ATMs for politically connected elites yet Ramaphosa simply looked the other way. Our GDP slid as power blackouts, poor policies and government regulations attacked our fragile economy, yet Ramaphosa looked t...
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