JUSTICE MALALA: When presidents unravel …
Ramaphosa has stopped even pretending to run the country, leaving South Africans literally in the dark
03 May 2023 - 06:00
Last Thursday, a friend and I went out for lunch to celebrate Freedom Day. He made a joke: “If you asked President Cyril Ramaphosa to choose between a salad and a steak for this lunch, what would he do? He would appoint a committee to make the decision for him.”
It’s not a funny joke, but sadly this is the president we have all painfully come to know. After the “nine wasted years” of former president Jacob Zuma, Ramaphosa has frittered away five precious years in policy incoherence, indecision, incompetence and elements of the corruption he vowed to eradicate...
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