Despite its vagueness, the RET has become central to the contemporary ANC. It is destined to remain a powerful bloc within the party, and a constant constraint on Ramaphosa leadership.
Cyril Ramaphosa, the president of South Africa and leader of the governing party.
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The ANC has been using multiple tactics to fend off the looming calamity of not having Ramaphosa as its president, and that of the country, in the clear absence of a credible candidate to replace him.
President Cyril Ramaphosa testified at the Zondo commission.
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Ending violence against foreigners can only happen by first recognising – and addressing – the hazards of South Africa’s crumbling system of indirect rule.
Many black South Africans live in appalling conditions with no running water or electricity 27 years into democracy.
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The new governing elite mistakenly believes that the goal of a democratic South Africa is simply to extend to everyone what whites enjoyed under apartheid.
Cyril Ramaphosa, president of South Africa as well as of the ruling party, the African National Congress.
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Ramaphosa is set to go down in the annals of history as an ANC president who presided over a tumultuous epoch in the party’s evolution.
Skyscraper buildings in the Sandton area stand on the skyline beyond residential housing in the Alexandra township in Johannesburg.
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Ramaphosa’s rise to power in 2018 offered South Africans hope that he would end corruption. Indeed, he made promises to do so. But he has met with resistance, especially within the ANC.
ANC campaigners at voting station in November 2020.
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Metaphors are not used for their own sake in politics, but as part of a strategy to persuade a particular audience to accept a point of view, and act accordingly
Farmers work in a field donated to the black community in Coligny, some 120kms west of Johannesburg.
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South Africans may well be seduced by the prospect of Zuma appearing at the Zondo commission, but he was not alone in driving the state capture project.
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez unveils the Green New Deal resolution.
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