President Ramaphosa announced on social media platform X that he had a phone call with US President Donald Trump recently. Ramaphosa would do very well to come clean in front of Trump and lay it all out on the table, in his most humble fashion, says the writer.
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By the time Ramaphosa goes to meet face to face with Trump at the Whitehouse, I hope that somehow, sanity will prevail and that maybe, just maybe, Cyril has an epiphany.
One thing Cyril cannot do, given the already fragile relationship between South Africa and the US, is to try make excuses for his absolutely poor leadership, shocking race-based laws, over-regulation of our economy and being a part of a government who has used so-called 'Transformation ' laws to 'right some wrongs of the past'.
Unfortunately, when we look around us today, not only has nothing changed since Apartheid came to an end, but things have gotten a whole lot worse. Mr Ramaphosa would do very well to come clean in front of Mr Trump and lay it all out on the table, in his most humble fashion.
President Trump will not accept anything other than a huge apology from Ramaphosa for the blatant middle finger tactics used so nonchalantly by the ANC cadres to show their disrespect to the West and, above all, its number one economic ally.
Whether we like it or not, without America, we are even worse off than we already are! Citrus farmers and motor vehicle manufacturers don't deserve to pay such a heavy price for one man and his party's disgusting acts of self-sabotage and self-enrichment! It is time for Ramaphosa to step up to the plate and right the wrongs of the ANC and acknowledge its total failure towards its very own supporters, and the rest of South Africa.
Forcing employers to retrench their very best workers to make way for incompetent, lazy, gravy train riding spectators is an abolishment and utter madness! Nowhere else in this whole World do we see such unfair atrocities take place, and there are some other terrible nations out there doing horrible things.
Some even call this ''social engineering. The ANC's track record is dismal at best, and leaves even the most uninformed person thinking: how on earth can a government be so bad at everything! Not to mention its sneaky ties with Hamas and Iran-perhaps Trump's single most pressing gripe with the ANC!
If Ramaphosa and his ANC doesn't drastically change its foreign policies and get rid of BEE, or if they fail to condemn hate speech by EFF members or keep ignoring farm murders, I only see bad things happening for them.
Targeted sanctions against ANC delegates are already being discussed and Trump won't stand for Ramaphosa's nice words, his fake smile or his excuses of South Africa being historically challenged- I believe that those days are over now- the World has waken up to what goes on in our country and the ANC cannot hide it any longer!
Perhaps the best thing Afriforum, Gary Player and Musk did, was to shine a light on the real SA, showing the World that this Madiba-inspired nation has indeed turned into a failed state, with too much power resting with the Elite ANC government officials and ministers, creating an ever-increasing gap between the rich and the poor.
We are not the most unequal nation for any other reason than the fact that the ANC has crippled our economy, divided us by colour and hollowed out the state, with straight faces and a level of arrogance unseen in this World!
To offer positions based on your skin colour is as absurd as it is racist, and goes against our constitution and sets a very poor example to the rest of the World of how not to achieve redress. When the so-called previously disadvantaged become even poorer and more marginalised than ever before, who exactly is benefitting from this ''redress''?
I think we all know the answer by now, and for those who still doubt, perhaps they will never accept reality, even when it stares them squarely in the face. Ramaphosa owes it to himself to go humbly before Mr Trump, and say sorry, and to fix this mess and offer his utmost gratitude for being given one more chance to right the wrongs of his ridiculously divided, factional ANC cabinet of clowns. South Africa deserves a fresh new start, and a government that honours God and serves its people, once again!
L Oosthuizen Durban