Let us state from the onset that as a paper we hold no brief for President Cyril Ramaphosa. He first took office in February 2018, hoisted upon the nation as this great reformer who would undo almost a decade of the capture of state institutions and the erosion of governance, and reverse loss of the country’s international stature under his predecessor Jacob Zuma. Ramaphosa himself described the rot under Zuma as “nine wasted years”. Never mind …
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