President Cyril Ramaphosa made a great deal of promises at the start of his presidency. A series of dire statistics show just how badly he failed to deliver, says Nick Hedley.
Six years ago, Cyril Ramaphosa took over as president of South Africa, promising to clamp down on rampant corruption and implement sweeping reforms to reignite the flagging economy. But official statistics show just how spectacularly he has failed.
Make no mistake, all of South Africa’s critical economic indicators were already going the wrong way when Ramaphosa took over in February 2018. At that moment, we desperately needed someone willing to take drastic steps to first arrest the decline and then reverse it.