Frustrated with Cyril Ramaphosa, who is likely to be the ANC’s presidential candidate again, some businesspeople have been trying to help centre-right opposition parties to organise themselves into a pact even before the 2024 elections, argues the writer. Photo: ANC/X
It is astonishing, with all we know about South African political dynamics – and business should know too – some captains of industry believe they can fix South Africa’s challenges by micro-dictating through purse strings, writes Mpumelelo Mkhabela.
If money on its own could solve state capacity problems, South Africa should be cruising nicely in all critical indicators – on economic growth, social stability, corrupt-free government, and human development, among others.
It was the power of money, after all, that got a superbly wealthy Cyril Ramaphosa elected ANC leader and subsequently president of the country with a promise to score well on important national indicators.
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