Pieter du Toit | Enemy of the people: Ramaphosa’s unravelling shows how toxic and criminal the ANC is

If Cyril Ramaphosa was going to become a president of consequence, he would have had to kill the ANC and its networks of extraction and patronage, writes Pieter du Toit. That was never going to happen.

The unravelling of President Cyril Ramaphosa – and, with him, the ANC – over the last week has been dramatic as it has been fundamental. 

The president, who trundled (rather than swept) into office on the promise of a reform agenda after the deprivation of the Zuma-Gupta years, has all but lost the moral authority he claimed for himself during the halcyon days of 2017 and 2018.