EUSEBIUS MCKAISER | Can the ANC risk putting Ramaphosa’s face on its 2024 elections posters?

Ramaphoria addicts failed to appreciate just how deep the networks of criminality are within the state and the party — and his lack of political courage

06 March 2023 - 09:55

Even though some of us warned Ramaphoria addicts back in 2017 already that president Cyril Ramaphosa doesn’t have a magic wand with which to fix a broken ANC (https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/12/18/cyril-ramaphosa-isnt-south-africas-savior/), most of us naysayers nevertheless took for granted that “brand Ramaphosa” is, however, stronger than ‘"brand ANC”...

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