TOM EATON | The ANC is more or less cooked

If Ramaphosa’s party scrapes together a clear majority, it will spend its last term in office utterly paralysed by its death throes, with all those fine promises rendered ever more ludicrous with every breaking scandal

26 February 2024 - 21:20

Cyril Ramaphosa has threatened voters in some dramatic ways over the years, but at the weekend, as his party waved around a bucket of reheated slop and called it a manifesto, he threatened the nation with something genuinely nightmarish: another 30 years of ANC rule...

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