LETTER: Alliance is albatross around Cyril Ramaphosa’s neck
The president should free himself to recruit capable help, fire the incompetents and modernise the ANC
26 January 2021 - 15:59
In 1994 the ANC inherited what Francis Fukuyama would call a capable state, with a diverse economy. It spent its first decade in power doing largely sensible things (for which I defended it, while voting DA).
However, in the next decade the ANC presided over the disintegration and then destruction of that capable state and the demoralisation of the economy. It was hamstrung in pursuing sensible economic policies by contradictory positions within the tripartite alliance, with its “capital bad, labour good; we must control levers of power” dogma...
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