Opinion

Bout of spring-cleaning must scrub out the dirty office bearers, too

04 October 2020 - 00:00 By Sunday Times Editorial

When Cyril Ramaphosa took over the presidency of the ANC at Nasrec in 2017, there were high hopes for national renewal, a yearning among people that Ramaphosa neatly captured in the "New Dawn" slogan that energised his campaign. Two things stand out from the unrealistic burden placed on our president's shoulders then: first, that SA is a constitutional democracy, which allows the president substantial, but not unlimited, powers; second, that his predecessor Jacob Zuma's determined hollowing-out of law enforcement had largely opened the way for wholesale looting, especially of state-owned enterprises. It was the age of impunity...

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