Photo: President Cyril Ramaphosa, whose political survival in 2025 contrasted sharply with the nation’s unresolved crises. Credit: Delwyn Verasamy
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A political order in fragmentation
Governance failures in plain sight
Ramaphosa’s survival as strategy
Diplomatic humiliation — and recovery
The limits of external success
A year of reckoning, not renewal
2025-12-20