President Cyril Ramaphosa before delivering his SONA.
Cyril Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation Address ran to nearly 7 000 words, but just 20 or so of them could haunt the President all the way to polling day, writes Tony Leon.
Last Thursday in the United States, a special prosecutor, Robert K Hur, exonerated President Joe Biden on charges of mishandling classified documents in a report of more than 400 pages. But just nine words of it could mark the epitaph for the president and herald the return of Donald Trump to the White House.
Hur (appointed to office by Trump) lethally described Biden as “a well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory”.
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