A chance for Ramaphosa to panel-beat the ANC into the shape he wants
Voters are calling for reconciliation and co-operation, but will the big two listen?
07 November 2021 - 00:00
SA this week seems to have arrived at something akin to an interregnum foretold by Italian political theorist Antonio Gramsci in which the old is dying and the new is yet to be born. The ANC got more than a bloody nose this week. It’s on its last legs, and yet an alternative is struggling to emerge. A cluster of pretenders are elbowing one another for pole position...
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