No more free-for-all
The overwhelming reaction to the tough utterances against corruption by the ANC national executive committee (NEC) – President Cyril Ramaphosa’s plaintive letter to ANC branch members and this week’s special NEC meeting on malfeasance – has understandably been one of deep cynicism.
South Africans have greeted the ANC leadership’s belated anti-corruption crusade with gaping yawns and tired groans of “we’ve heard it all before”. You can’t blame them. You will remember that, if you went by his words, even Jacob Zuma hated corruption and used official
