The ANC's latest horse-trading catastrophe
23 August 2020 - 00:04
In politics, nothing much can be done without horse-trading and entering into tactical alliances. That President Cyril Ramaphosa is head of state today is thanks partly to the deals he and his backers had to enter into with other interest groups in the party before the ANC's 2017 national conference...
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