You might think it a considerable risk during an election year, but President Cyril Ramaphosa had no qualms telegraphing just how severely his party, the ANC, has entirely detached itself from the lives of the people he expects to vote for it. 

Speaking to the media, Ramaphosa bemoaned how MPs were “struggling to make ends meet”, adding that many of them were “cut to the bone because they have had no meaningful increase for quite a while”. ..

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