THEBE MABANGA
ANC President Cyril Ramphosa delivered the party’s annual January 8 Statement sounding tired for this time of year, a reflection of the strain he has been under, and put his finger on the pulse on problem facing the party and the country, but offered little by way of proposed solutions.
When he outlined the achievements of the democratic, it sounded tense, turgid and hollow, as if he knew that many of those listening knew of those achievements, but had grown impatient with them.
Ramaphosa acknowledged that the ANC cannot trade on its past glories.
Without a hint of irony, Ramaphosa pointed to the economic success of the five year period leading to the 2008/2009 Global Financial Crisis but did not remind his audience that the success was funded on the 1996 Growth Employment and Redistribution (Gear) and the 2004 Accelerated Shared Growth Initiative of South Africa (Asgisa), unpopular
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