Supporting Ramaphosa is an unpalatable but necessarily defensive line for the left in South Africa

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The democratic features of our society that do exist are under constant threat from within the ruling party and by the criminal networks linked to it.

In a real democracy a presidential scandal would be a crisis for the president and his party but not for the country. But South Africa is only a partial democracy. 

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Imraan Buccus

Dr Imraan Buccus is a postdoctoral fellow at the Durban University of Technology and a senior research associate at the Auwal Socio-Economic Research Institute

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