ROGER SOUTHALL: ANC will go to the polls with just one major asset — Cyril Ramaphosa
South Africa can expect the 2019 election to bring the most presidential-style campaign yet
It is common cause that the performance of South Africa’s government, led by the ANC, has been worse than abysmal. Under former president Jacob Zuma, ANC functionaries pillaged numerous institutions of state. They enabled state owned institutions to be looted, mismanaged the provision of basic services and presided over an alarming downward spiral of the economy. Evidence keeps mounting of dishonesty and profligacy. The unfolding scandal around VBS Bank has shone a spotlight on the ANC as a nest of thieves. In addition, a commission of inquiry is relentlessly exposing how Zuma’s henchmen amassed huge riches from state capture. And another inquiry into the South African Revenue Service (Sars) is revealing how the state’s capacity to raise revenue from the politically powerful and influential was systematically undermined. All in all, the ANC has completely forfeited its right to be re-elected in 2019. It knows it, and is running very scared. But the odds are that it will still win, e...
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