Cartoon | On repeat

In this week’s cartoon, Cyril Ramaphosa channels a penitent Bart Simpson while Jacob Zuma does school bully Nelson Muntz.

Ramaphosa’s sudden resolve to build a capable and accountable state is both familiar – it has been a recurring policy ambition of ANC governments all the way back to 1994 – and depressingly empty, given the epic toxicity of the party he leads.

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