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Who is President Ramaphosa?

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December 08, 2025

CAN Tarina Patel, who (according to an iol article on November 23) proclaimed, "It is one of the greatest honours of my life to welcome our beloved Prime Minister, Narendra Modi ji, to South Africa" explain, who is President Cyril Ramaphosa?

- KAMINI PRAKASH

She, like certain others we know, and claims like them, to be Indian when expedient, "belongs everywhere and nowhere".

Known for her ostentatious antics and extravagant lifestyle displayed on our TV screens, and attempted forays into Bollywood, she is not, cannot represent Indian "culture", let alone be a "bridge" between Indian and African cultures.

Her claims become doubly reprehensible when we recall this pretentious behaviour screened, twicefirst in

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