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Is Ramaphosa winning the race?

he structural reforms that President Cyril Ramaphosa is currently introducing are a strong indication he is gaining an upper hand over left-leaning populists in the battle for control of economic policy formulation inside the ruling ANC. After taking over the reins of the ANC in December 2017, Ramaphosa made a raft of promises to tackle our country’s biggest bugbears – endemic corruption, a failing economy, and runaway unemployment. For a while he dithered, then stalled, on making good on his promises, to the disappointment of many

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