Upon taking power in a palace coup a year ago, Cyril Ramaphosa's African National Congress (ANC) government was supposedly going to sweep out the prolific corruptionassociated with the 2009-18 Jacob Zuma ANC regime. But although excruciatingly-slow progress is being made in evicting the most obvious villains, durable Zumite influences remain, and whistleblowing continues to unveil rapid ANC degeneracy, even stretching into the Ramaphosa family.
Last week's Budget Statement confirmed that Finance Minister Tito Mboweni is funding ever more of it. Corporatisation, corruption, carbon-intensity and capitalist bias run amok in state spending, as Treasury allocations worsen climate change and provide lower-than-promised social grants and even tertiary education funding (in spite of intense student protests this month).
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