Opinion
SA in danger of ditching its principles and falling in with its dubious foreign friends
22 December 2019 - 00:02
President Cyril Ramaphosa, the cynics crowed, had hopped off to Egypt a week ago, merely to charge his mobile. It's a loaded little joke, pregnant with all sort of allusions. The country has no power; and the president himself is dithering or even powerless - a broken reed twisting in the wind...
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