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Pragmatic, wealthy and ambitious, Cyril Ramaphosa promised "a new dawn" for corruption-ridden South Africa when he became president.
The ANC’s national executive committee (NEC) meeting to discuss the Phala Phala report's findings amid mounting pressure for President Cyril Ramaphosa to resign has been adjourned.
Its presidents have not been up to the task.
With the ANC’s national elective conference looming, political analyst Richard Calland, who has written a new book, The Presidents: From Mandela to Ramaphosa, Leadership in the Age of Crisis (Penguin), with Mabel Sithole, reflects on "the age of crisis".
Calland who was originally selected to serve on the independent panel probing the Phala Phala allegations said Ramaphosa could have handled his testimony, and his response to the Zondo commission better.