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Siya Khumalo | Ramaphosa on #ZumaVsZondo: South African taxpayers are funding crime

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President Cyril Ramaphosa.
President Cyril Ramaphosa.
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The ANC’s "collective responsibility" implicates taxpayers, so Ramaphosa's failure to uphold the Constitution on Zuma justifies tax avoidance if not conscientious revolt, writes Siya Khumalo. 

It's the audacity for me. But it's no surprise: the Cyril Ramaphosa who watched the coats of those who massacred the miners in Marikana is no doppelgänger of the Ramaphosa who negotiated for God only knows what on black people's behalf in the 1990s. 

That Ramaphosa, in turn, is no stunt double of the one sitting pretty in the Union Buildings: they're the one, the same and the only.  

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