OPINIONISTA: With the vote endorsing Ramaphosa’s New Dawn, now for the long game

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OPINIONISTA: With the vote endorsing Ramaphosa's New Dawn, now for the long game By Yazeed Fakier

over Magashule and the party’s contested electoral list, which has survived its integrity committee intact and reached the Independent Electoral Commission unchanged.

Still, The Guardian, while candidly laying out the raft of serious challenges facing Ramaphosa, significantly left unmentioned the widespread fear of a Given a more recent airing and a more familiar context, like, say, the Bell Pottinger/WMC ruckus, copies of the newspaper may well have ended up stoking RET bonfires instead of garnering the enthusiastic approval that greeted its April edition.

As things stand, the major credit ratings agencies, even while cognizant of the economic and attendant socio-political implications of a fully-fledged domestic investment downgrade, have already all but thrown in the towel; Moody’s is the last-remaining of the three agencies still willing to ride out a political environment fraught with angst.that Moody’s wants to allow the new government a chance to show its intentions before making a decision about the country’s sovereign credit rating.

 

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