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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