The ANC is one of the most respected and long-established political parties, with great victories and heroes in its past – Mandela and the fight against apartheid among others.
But in recent years the whiff of corruption and the unlovely euphemism – state capture – has surrounded the party.
And President Zuma and his connections to the Gupta family have been hitting the party where it hurts – in the polls, where it has been losing cities and provinces to opposition parties.
So now that former mine union leader turned businessman Cyril Ramaphosa has won the head of the party – with the assumption that he will become president of the country next year – why the nagging doubts that this will not change much in South Africa?
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