The recent arrests of Prince Andrew and President Yoon, along with a US Supreme Court ruling against Trump, signal a global reassertion of the rule of law. Tony Leon reflects whether it is a similar case in South Africa. “That Was the Week That Was”, the title of a 1960s British satirical revue, sprang vividly [...]
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s latest newsletter on fighting corruption reads like a masterclass in denial and euphemism, claiming South Africa must “build a society in which corruption cannot take root” while keeping Zondo Commission-implicated ministers in his Cabinet and failing to prosecute a single politician, despite overwhelming evidence of state capture, argues Tony Leon. On August [...]
“The rest is silence” were the last words of Hamlet shortly before his death and the end of the epic play by William Shakespeare. Could this be the political epitaph for the wounded presidency of Cyril Ramaphosa? Like the Prince of Denmark he is a figure of hesitancy and indecisiveness on one hand and a [...]
