Ramaphosa has stopped even pretending to run the country, leaving South Africans literally in the dark, writes justicemalala.
Last Thursday, a friend and I went out for lunch to celebrate Freedom Day. He made a joke: “If you asked President Cyril Ramaphosa to choose between a salad and a steak for this lunch, what would he do? He would appoint a committee to make the decision for him.”
Last Tuesday Ramaphosa stood next to Finnish President Sauli Väinämö Niinistö and shamelessly announced that South Africa was pulling out of the International Criminal Court because the body was “unfair” to some countries. Ramaphosa has largely dragged his feet and has allowed the moral and ethical dodginess of the Zuma years to return with a vengeance
In the first five years of Ramaphosa’s term as ANC president, many of us believed that because he had ascended to power on a thin margin, he was carefully working on entrenching himself and would become decisive once he had done this. At the ANC’s 2017 national conference Ramaphosa told his supporters that they shouldn’t worry about their loss of the general secretary position because his own election by a slim margin “gives us a beachhead” to fix the ANC.
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