Charles Molele
The African Nation Congress will win the upcoming general elections with an absolute majority, President Cyril Ramaphosa told tens of thousands of party supporters at a rally to launch the its election manifesto in Durban on Saturday.
A confident Ramaphosa believes his party has turned the corner by dealing decisively with endemic corruption within the State, left by former president Jacob Zuma.
The ANC, after the disastrous administration of Zuma, experienced a significant decline in electoral support, especially among the overwhelmingly young, urban and educated members of the party.
This was due to corruption, patronage and the former president’s links with the powerful Gupta family.
But since Ramaphosa took over as president of the party and government, he has established a number of initiatives to deal with corruption.
These initiatives include the Judicial Commission of Inquiries into State capture, the Nugent Commission of Inquiry into the SA Revenue
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