Where Cyril gets race right and then wrong

18 February 2024 - 00:00

After his lacklustre state of the nation address, President Cyril Ramaphosa came out swinging in parliament and the Cape Town Press Club this  week, accusing critics of his rhapsodic vision of the state of the country of racism, or at least of wanting to “preserve racial privilege and to reverse the fundamental social and economic transformation that is taking place in our country”...

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