The verdict of the media and President Cyril Ramaphosa’s is that the 'good' ANC has won.
Jacob Zuma was jailed. The insurrection that was meant to demonstrate the former president’s appeal to the masses lasted barely a week. Two subsequent populist mobilisations via social media fizzled out before they even started. The verdict of the media and President Cyril Ramaphosa’s is that the “good” ANC has won. The baddies gambled and lost, which means that the reformists’ hand has been immeasurably strengthened. Yet, it doesn’t seem like that.
As yet, none has been arrested. The Zuma family’s role in fomenting violence is recorded in their social media feeds. None has been arrested. What is the point of Ramaphosa’s “long game” when it means we have a president who is willing to let the country burn rather than risk alienating a criminal faction? But it’s on the issue of cadre deployment that the weakness of Ramaphosa’s position is most evident.
The public service, wrote Ramaphosa in March, did not belong to any party. “Nor should it be the domain of any particular interest group.” To change this, the public service would be “depoliticised and government departments insulated from politics”. It would be professionalised. Applicants would sit an entrance exam and those short-listed would face “integrity tests”.
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