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Lull in cocky talk of ANC’s election defeat

MASTERFUL STRATEGY

The perpetually dithering President Cyril Ramaphosa may have been unable or unwilling for more than five years to make the most quotidian of governance decisions, but he is sailing into 2024 on something of a high.

The ANC is today, on the face of it, in an infinitely better shape for the as-yet ungazetted general election than it was just a couple of months back.

Consequently, there has been something of a scramble as commentators have walked back confident earlier predictions of the ANC’s defeat. There’s

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