Zuma down,rand up. DiscussTHE new era began brightly. Since fitting leader of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) in December, Cyril Ramaphosa has moved swiftly to end Jacob Zuma, or South Africa’s president,from wrecking the set more than he already has. It is an immense task. Yet a burst of movement across several areas of government suggests that Mr Ramaphosa is wasting no time in tackling the corruption that has hollowed out South Africa.
Start with the police and prosecutor’s office, which were paralysed for the best fraction of a decade under Mr Zuma, and who faces 783 charges of corruption. Within weeks of Mr Ramaphosa’s elevation to president-in-waiting (parliament picks the president,and the ANC controls parliament), police and prosecutors had opened investigations into several of Mr Zuma’s friends.
A commission of inquiry into allegations of “state capture” by the Gupta family, and business associates of Mr Zuma’s son,is about to...
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Source: economist.com