This past weekend, the ruling party fixated on the $580,000 private sale of a rare breed of buffalo rather than the billions in taxpayer money it has lost to corruption and state capture each year.

Far from solutions to the country’s very deep challenges — including energy, a looming water crisis, rampant crime, biting unemployment and poverty — the party’s national executive committee (NEC) chose to satisfy factional impulses at its first in-person meeting after a two-year, Covid-induced hiatus...

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