RAZINA MUNSHI: Will rogue ANC members be sent to the naughty corner?
Scepticism of Ramaphosa’s ability to do anything, and disbelief that the members of the ruling party will have any regard for the seriousness of his message to them, contrasts sharply with the embrace his new dawn received when he first assumed office
25 August 2020 - 07:00
Many critics have dismissed Cyril Ramaphosa’s seven-page letter to ANC members (https://www.businesslive.co.za/fm/opinion/2020-08-24-read-in-full-president-cyril-ramaphosas-letter-to-anc-members-about-corruption/), in which he calls out the corrupt among them, as simple lip service. South Africans seem to have shrugged it off as a cosmetic move that does nothing to mask the role the ruling party played in entrenching corruption and patronage.
And, let’s face it, it does little to aid efforts to hold rogue public servants and party officials to account...
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