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Adriaan Basson | Wanted: A president with unquestionable integrity to turn around SA

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Where is Cyril? | President Ramaphosa's so-called renewal agenda is nowhere to be seen, argues the writer.
Where is Cyril? | President Ramaphosa's so-called renewal agenda is nowhere to be seen, argues the writer.

President Cyril Ramaphosa is missing in action as the ANC cuts deals with alleged criminals in municipalities and the energy crisis deepens, writes Adriaan Basson.

There is a line in the advertisement for the new CEO of Eskom that struck me when I read it: "stabilising an organisation in crisis". Isn't this precisely what we need for the entire South Africa?

It is February, and President Cyril Ramaphosa has yet to address the nation's crippling power crisis that is causing hundreds of businesses to close its doors, exacerbating the country's already scandalous unemployment number.

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