President Cyril Ramaphosa at the African Mining Indaba at Cape Town Parliament on 7 February in Cape Town.
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When Cyril Ramaphosa is grilled about the state of the country, he is not afraid to acknowledge how dismal things are. But he holds onto three primary defences as to why the ambitious reforms he promised at the start of his tenure amounted to little, writes Qaanitah Hunter.
There is nothing more dehumanising than desperate citizens at the mercy of an incapable state.
The state’s efficiency, or lack thereof, touches citizens in every aspect of their lives and, more so, if they are poor.
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