Ramaphosa must fix the mess

BY THE time President Cyril Ramaphosa goes to meet face to face with President Donald Trump at the White-house, I hope that somehow, sanity will prevail and that maybe, just maybe, Cyril has an epiphany.

- L OOSTHUIZEN

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.

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.