ANALYSIS| Cyril Ramaphosa’s Failure To Curb Corruption Points To Complicity

LUCAS LEDWABA

WHEN he took his oath of office in May 2019, President Cyril Ramaphosa pledged to promote all that will advance the republic and oppose all that may harm it.

In his inauguration speech on the same day at Loftus Versfeld in Pretoria, Ramaphosa told the world that SA should “forge a compact for an efficient, capable and ethical state, a state that is free from corruption, for companies that generate social value and propel human development, for elected officials and public servants who faithfully serve no other cause than that of the public.”

He went to further urge that “we must be a society that values excellence, rewards effort and hard work and rejects mediocrity.”

We are now just over a year into Ramaphosa’s presidency and there’s an overwhelming consensus that corruption within government has become the new normal and that mediocrity has become a defining attribute of