So, President Cyril Ramaphosa thinks history will absolve him? (“History will absolve me, says Ramaphosa” (../politics/2020-09-09-history-will-absolve-me-says-ramaphosa/), September 9). It won’t. He will be proclaimed guilty of the final act that turned Africa’s equivalent of “The Pearl of the Antilles” into a failed state.

If he was actually going to do something about corruption it would have happened by now. As soon as the EFF started twittering “Attack Clicks”, he would have had the police there and Julius Malema in handcuffs. But the police have been neutered since Marikana, and Malema is still revelling in his “there’s no such thing as bad publicity” stunt...

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