NEWS ANALYSIS: Cabinet choices a negotiated settlement in the long game, but will it deliver on the economic front?
Virtually all stakeholders in the ANC, including the Zuma faction, find space in the new not-so-lean government that was expected to have been strictly based on merit and performance
31 May 2019 - 05:10
One of the things said most frequently about Cyril Ramaphosa is that “he is playing the long game”.
This theory is used to explain why he sat alongside Jacob Zuma in the cabinet for four years and in the ANC for five, saying nothing while Zuma’s excesses spun out of control and the state was hollowed out and corrupted. It also explains why he trod so carefully with the composition of the last cabinet, allowing even the deeply compromised to serve...
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