TOM EATON | In the words of Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, ‘it is over, it can’t continue’
As the EFF tried its best to upstage the president, he blithely continued to try to tell us everything was going to be all right
10 February 2023 - 00:03
Half an hour into his address on Thursday evening, Cyril Ramaphosa’s mistake was clear: if he was going to make promises that nobody believed, he should at least have made promises that were excitingly unbelievable, like that he would finally bring Isidingo’s Cherel De Villiers-Heyns to justice or complete Lance Klusener’s quick single in the 1999 Cricket World Cup semifinal...
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