MAKHUDU SEFARA | Ramaphosa dodged a bullet, but was that the best Team SA could do?

Escaping the ‘Zelensky treatment’ does not cut it

22 May 2025 - 04:33

For many South Africans, it was sufficient that President Cyril Ramaphosa “dodged a bullet”, as it were, content merely with escaping the dreaded treatment Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was previously subjected to...

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