The recent flip-flopping of South Africa’s governing party, the ANC, on several key policy issues has been baffling.
Its party leader and state president, Cyril Ramaphosa, declared a national state of disaster during his State of the Nation Address on February 9 to ostensibly avert the devastating power failures that have become part of our everyday life. “Extraordinary circumstances call for extraordinary measures”, he argued. But what was truly extraordinary was the sudden termination of the national state of disaster less than two months later.
In a week of climb-downs,
