LETTER: Oom Cyril has got this
President has pretended to proceed with expropriation while trying to numb its radical tones
Since the election of Cyril Ramaphosa as president there has been a strange mixture of euphoria and dread among South Africans. The euphoria is linked to an enduring sense of relief that a competent leader is finally governing the country again, and the dread to suspicion that the endearing “Oom Cyril” is in fact a staunch ANC commie, bent on stripping citizens of their property rights.
Understandably, the rhetoric of expropriation without compensation is most frightening to propertied South Africans and for activists at the Institute of Race Relations and AfriForum. As Frans Cronjé rightly states, such radical redistribution will be disastrous for the economy. But what analysts seem to neglect about Ramaphosa’s leadership is his inheritance of such populist ideas from the then cornered Zuma & Co, whose remnants still hold significant power within the ANC...
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