ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa was confronted with arguably one of the most poorly run municipalities in the North West when he took his Letsema campaign to the province on Saturday.
JOHANNESBURG, Aug 11 South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa today resumed his much-anticipated testimony in front of a judicial inquiry into corruption, a month after his predecessor was jailed for ignoring the same investigators. It is Ramaphosa’s second time appearing before the panel,.
May 24, 2021 last updated 9:14 ET South African President Cyril Ramaphosa delivers his State of the Nation Address to Parliament, in Cape Town, South Africa, Feb. 11, 2021 (pool photo by Esa Alexander via AP).
South Africa’s Ramaphosa Disappoints on Human Rights
Cyril Ramaphosa’s rise to the South African presidency in 2018 generated considerable optimism that his leadership would bring a more enlightened approach to policy, both domestic and foreign. His talk of a “new dawn” and his calls for a return to the values of Nelson Mandela represented an implicit repudiation of his two immediate predecessors, Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma. In the case of the latter, Ramaphosa also promised an end to the rampant corruption and state capture that characterized Zuma’s decade in office.