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ANC spokesperson Mahlengi Bhengu-Motsiri. (Photo by Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images)
GOVERNMENT FORMATION

ANC: ‘We are talking to everybody’

The party’s national executive committee will decide who it will partner with – and how – on Thursday

  • Paddy Harper
4 min read
The South African economy is in such a ditch that the country cannot afford a new party which would take months or years to learn how to run it. (Fabrice Coffrini/ Getty Images)
CYRIL RAMAPHOSA

Ramaphosa’s reforms not certain

Local markets may enjoy a spell of post-election Ramaphoria, but the president now faces an uphill battle in truly fixing the broken economy

  • Lynley Donnelly
6 min read