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The question that looms ever closer every year: what happens after Cyril Ramaphosa?

01 July 2025 - 04:30

I’m all for accountability, but you have to admit that threatening Cyril Ramaphosa with a vote of no confidence feels a bit mean, coming just a year after we held a national vote of no confidence in which 60 percent of the electorate queued for hours to tell him that they don’t trust him to run a bath...

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