Cyril of the ANC: toeing the party line or straightening it?
25 April 2021 - 00:00
President Cyril Ramaphosa will make two long-awaited appearances before the Zondo commission of inquiry into state capture in coming weeks. This week, for two days, he will wear his party colours, testifying as head of the ANC. Later, he will testify as head of state, but it is his first appearance that will be more keenly awaited, and for good reason. While we are asked to believe, and there is some evidence of this, that the government is being run by determined new brooms sweeping clean, the corresponding clean-up of the party has been more problematic, to put it charitably...
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