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Ramaphosa can’t fight corruption, says Cosatu

COSATU says the countrywide personal protective equipment (PPE) tender fraud and corruption, economic mismanagement and maladministration in municipalities are a sign very little has changed, two years after President Cyril Ramaphosa took over.

Cosatu’s spokesperson Sizwe Pamla told the Sunday Independent this week, the country was on the brink of collapse due to governance failures and procurement fraud and corruption at all levels of the government.

In an interview ahead of the labour federation’s planned protest action next week, Pamla said while

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