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Ramaphosa Provides Six-Month Deadline For Key Priorities

SOUTH AFRICA
  • South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has given his cabinet six months to deliver on key priorities as the governing party prepares to contest next year’s elections. (Bloomberg)
  • “We are not going to accept any excuses,” Ramaphosa said in his closing remarks to a meeting of the ANC’s National Executive Committee, its top decision-making structure, on Monday. “The priorities set out must be addressed” and executed, he said.
  • With about 300 days to go until the election, the ANC will begin the process of compiling a manifesto that sets out its key priorities should it win another five-year term. The party is confident of winning about 11 million votes, the president said, which should be sufficient for it to retain power.

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