While I found Jonny Steinberg’s column historically interesting, the only  conclusion I could draw is that the SA canoe is in effect up sh*t creek without a paddle (“Ramaphosa’s sense of reality rules out the autocrat’s overreach (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/columnists/2021-02-25-jonny-steinberg-ramaphosas-sense-of-reality-rules-out-the-autocrats-overreach/)”, February 25).

A weak president. Corruption dripping from every ANC orifice, coupled with broedertwis in the top leadership. An “expanded’ unemployment rate somewhere north of 42%, with a previously limping economy sucker-punched by Covid...

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