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Searching the Cabinet for intelligent life

TREASURY ABYSS

In its audacity and frustrations, it reminds one of Nasa’s search for life on Mars. I’m referring to our odyssey to discover whether there is intelligent life in President Cyril Ramaphosa’s government.

The results are not dissimilar.

In the US, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration recently announced that despite initially exciting results, verifiable signs of life had yet to emerge on the red planet. Likewise, here. A recent National Treasury report briefly ignited South African hopes that there was cognitive activity in that fetid morass known as

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