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Grimm fairy tale with no happy ending

DEMOCRACY’S POOR CHILD

There has been no shortage of volunteers to put flesh on the imaginary bones of Tintswalo, the “born free” young woman fathered by the ANC 30 years ago and drawn to the attention of the country by President Cyril Ramaphosa in his State of the Nation address.

In the main, this Sona was a lacklustre effort by a tired president. Less state of the nation that we live in than the state of the nation that will miraculously spring into existence if voters extend the ANC’s guardianship to the 35-year mark. Basically a reprise of his

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