LETTER: Ramaphosa needs to be bold and Maimane humble
First on the president’s agenda is getting rid of the loonies and the corrupt. Or both where they overlap
When Cyril Ramaphosa is elected president by parliament, I hope at that time Mmusi Maimane offers him an olive branch with certain conditions, namely that the DA will work closely with him to get the SA economy growing on condition that: • Ramaphosa cuts the loony left-wing radicals in the ANC loose; lets them side with the EFF or discounts their ideas 100%. That he doesn’t give them the time of day until they have learnt some basic common sense and realise that nothing in life is for free. • Ramaphosa cuts his Cabinet to 24 ministers or less. • Ramaphosa cuts loose every ANC minister or MP who is implicated in any corruption; the DA must have a list of these miscreants. These MPs must know that they are going to be properly investigated and should be told to resign or at least be suspended from parliament until cleared, if implicated in wrongdoing, not the other way around; the name “honourable” should mean something in parliament — people suspected of stealing or corruption are no...
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