In your face

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Rhoda Kadalie. In your face

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Introduction

Thoughts on South Africans (Heroes and humorists)

Transformation (Troubled Transformation)

Women (Abandoned Sisters)

Ruling Alliance (Party Poopers)

Western Cape (Stormy Cape)

Good Governance (Stumbling State)

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In your face

Passionate conversations about people and politics

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I AM glad that Cyril Ramaphosa’s name has been added to the list of African National Congress (ANC) presidential hopefuls for 2007. His candidature would be a pleasant neutraliser to the alternatives, who are too ghastly to contemplate. Many might unfairly disqualify him on the grounds that he is too rich for the job and that he might use his economic power to enrich himself even further, or use it to leverage resources for his empowerment pals or the ANC, in the same way that Silvio Berlusconi, tycoon and prime minister of Italy, became notorious.

The evidence since 1994 has been disconcerting. The very same businesses that sucked up to the apartheid government are now cosying up to the ANC and have been quite ruthless in using the ruling party in a system of patronage that is rather embarrassing to behold.

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