The mystery of the ANC's free pass on incompetence and corruption
Racial tensions and subtexts keep many South Africans, black and white, from condemning the party for its failures
13 September 2020 - 00:00
If there are two failures of the ANC government that are accelerating our demise as a nation, they are incompetence and corruption. In the past two weeks or so the two have converged painfully in our national consciousness, as if to rouse us from our collective slumber in the face of a looming catastrophe...
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