President Cyril Ramaphosa. (Supplied/CGIS)
With another five-year term loading, it is important to ask: how did Ramaphosa get governing so wrong? More importantly, can he fix it the second time around? To do so, he will have to change, says Carol Paton.
After a full five-year term and a year, it is an understatement to say that President Cyril Ramaphosa has been a disappointment.
The circumstances – the Covid-19 pandemic, floods and other natural disasters, and the hollowed-out state left by his predecessor – have been difficult. But Ramaphosa’s six years have been weighed down by inertia.
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