Ramaphosa has wasted so much of the goodwill that was given to him after the so-called nine wasted years.
President Cyril Ramaphosa during the ANCs 110th anniversary celebrations. Picture: Gallo Images/Philip Maeta
In fact, it came very close to being normal and lacking the usual glued-to-the-television set kind of perverse entertainment that ANC conferences have tended to provide recently. Although he became a billionaire in the next decade, his role in Marikana and his perceived close association with those seen as hogging South Africa’s wealth left him quite short of friends in the politics of the ANC, where factions were now the norm.And the following decade, the so-called “nine wasted years”, marked the time that Ramaphosa perfected the art of inaction and arriving late at the party.
Business was also ready to forgive him for his silence during the looting of state resources and hollowing out of state institutions.
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