FT's Rachman Review: Whatever happened to Mandela’s dream for South Africa?

Our partners at the Financial Times have a fantastic podcast episode that tracks the fortunes of President Cyril Ramaphosa since he took over the reins of power from embattled former head of state Jacob Zuma. While Ramaphosa’s 2017 Nasrec win at the ANC’s elective conference came with much fanfare about South Africa being on the precipice of a new dawn - it wasn’t to last with the sitting head of state now dogged by his own Phala Phala skeletons, while his party faced spirally fortunes in last year’s local government elections and what promises to be a bruising time in the upcoming national elections in 2024. In the Rachman Review, the FT’s chief foreign affairs commentator Gideon Rachman chats to writer and political activist Songezo Zibi - who’s the chairman of the think-tank the Rivonia Circle - a man who may one day plan to run for the highest office in the land. The next 30 minutes an interrogation of a South Africa run by what Zibi believes is an ANC not only morally bankrupt but intellectually starved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices