ANALYSIS: Did South Africa advance under Ramaphosa?

On the weekly episode of the vodcast 'The Bill', CapeTalk's Lester Kiewit and political analyst Tara Roos talk about the impact that Cyril Ramaphosa's presidency has had on South Africa.

Kiewit cites News24 Editor-in-Chief Adriaan Basson's latest opinion piece in which he asks, "Doesn't President Cyril Ramaphosa ever get angry with the daily reports of corruption and maladministration?"

"Do you think he ever reflects? Do you think he ever calls in someone who throws the book at him, and gets angry?" asks Kiewit.

Tara replies, "Cyril has one emotion, and that's 'in shock'. He's shocked, he's surprised, he's stunned. That's all Cyril really has to say about the ever-unfolding events of the South African political landscape. And why I don't think Cyril Ramaphosa is angry is because he knows what's happening. Every single scandal that we currently see unfolding in South Africa, Cyril knows about it. He knew about the political interference."

Kiewit says it could be argued that Ramaphosa knew what was wrong and therefore played his classic long game of trying to slowly but surely fix things from the inside.

"I use the example of South Africa being taken off the FATF's (Financial Action Task Force) grey list. It takes a country at least 32 months to get off that grey list, and with that, you have to have legislative reform, policy reform, you have to show an active enthusiasm to try and rectify some of the most basic criteria to get off that grey list, " he says.

To listen to the full discussion, watch the video below: