TRENDING: Breaking the chains: ‘nihilistic populism’
Ramaphosa’s growing profile, and Zuma’s disappearance, have created a crisis for the EFF
The timing was impeccable. Cyril Ramaphosa was delivering his first address as ANC president at the party’s annual birthday event.At the same time revolutionary cadres of the EFF gathered at the barricades to attack the enemy, a clothing shop in Menlyn Mall in Pretoria.The clothing chain, H&M, had been grotesquely insensitive, publishing an advertisement in which a black child wore a hoodie with the slogan "Coolest monkey in the jungle" and had been panned on social media for several days.It had withdrawn sales of the hoodie and had apologised, but the EFF decided that this provided the perfect opportunity for it to regain public attention, which had been waning in recent months as its prime target, President Jacob Zuma, began to withdraw from the stage.Zuma’s gradual disappearance and the growing profile of his replacement as ANC president, Cyril Ramaphosa, has created a crisis for the opposition.For several years now, they have simply had to wait for Zuma to do something reprehens...
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