NATASHA MARRIAN: Vague, vacillating Ramaphosa doing Zondo no favours
The president’s mere appearance speaks volumes , and it is immensely significant to put a clean break between his leadership and that of his predecessor Jacob Zuma, but it is not enough just to show up
How exactly can we characterise President Cyril Ramaphosa’s inaugural appearance before the commission of inquiry into state capture, chaired by deputy chief justice Raymond Zondo? As revolutionary reformer or a middle-of-the-road mumbler? An early assessment tends towards the latter.
There was a hesitance, a vacillation, in Ramaphosa’s responses before the commission. It could be attributed to nerves or to a conscious, strategic approach to shield the ANC from its undeniable complicity in state capture; or it could be due to the poor way in which questions were phrased by evidence leader Paul Pretorius...
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