Why isn’t Ramaphosa winning the war on corruption?

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In late 2017, when Cyril Ramaphosa won the leadership of the ANC at the Nasrec elective conference, he promised a ‘new dawn’ for SA. Just over four years later, those words ring increasingly hollow, writes robrose_za.

Adecade ago Karam Singh, the new head of Corruption Watch, quit the state-run Special Investigating Unit in frustration at how the fight against corruption had run aground.

"It was a few years into the Jacob Zuma administration, and while they made lots of noises about fighting corruption, including signing SIU proclamations, many of the reports we filed went nowhere," he says...A subscription helps you enjoy the best of our business content every day along with benefits such as articles from our international business news partners; ProfileData financial data; and digital access to the Sunday Times and Sunday Times Daily.

 

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robrose_za Brave of you to assume he is fighting it.

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