President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Freedom Day claim that the “privileged could no longer close its eyes to the plight of the poor” was deeply ironic and insulting to the intelligence of numerous South Africans across many decades who have spent their lives in the service of reaching out and helping others.

It is about time he and the political class (read elite) opened their eyes to the plight of the poor, took their collective snout out of the trough and stopped mouthing off platitudes and slogans...

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