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Throughout the world, people who follow politics are fixating on leaders. South Africa follows the trend and so President Ramaphosa has become an obsession.
Helping to make sense of the Cabinet make-up is Steven Friedman, a political analyst who has been studying the South African landscape for decades.
South Africans hate to miss out on global disasters. This explains why last week’s national election is being touted as a victory for extremism.
Political fundi, Steven Friedman, says the worse the ANC does, the better the Zuma group’s chances are of removing Ramaphosa at the ruling party’s national conference in 2022.
Friedman paints the broad context of SA’s racially-skewed Gini-co-efficient to further explain why Ramaphosa must carefully manage the Zuptoid/EFF tactics of simplistically bulldozing the playing field level.
The African National Congress celebrates its 107th birthday this year against a backdrop of an election campaign it’s likely to win handily – but which is likely to mask its longer-term decline.
Rhetoric from the likes of the EFF has gone up a notch in recent weeks as the party has looked to divert attention away from itself.
The economic stimulus package is more interesting for what it says about the politics of economic decision-making in South Africa’s governing African National Congress than for its likely impact on the economy.
The South African government’s plan to change the constitution to mention land expropriation without compensation could, ironically, end up strengthening the property rights on which investment depends.
Mark Lamberti may have inadvertently done his corporate peers a huge favour by labelling a financially competent and experienced black accountant as a “female employment equity” person.