RAMAPHOSA TESTIMONY FAILS TO LIFT LID ON ANC GRAFT

FROM the early days of his life as a trade union, civic and political leader, President Cyril Ramaphosa often drew from his veritable armoury of human traits that seem to enable him to glide past difficult moments.

Indeed, watching his testimony as president of the ANC before the Zondo Commission into state capture this week, one could have forgotten that, in Ramaphosa’s own words, in the minds of the general public of South Africa, the organisation he leads is “accused number one” in the multi-billion-rand corruption