Greetings Dramatards 
I was supposed to go work in the fields today 
but we ate some very expired meat this weekend, which our butchery couldn't apparently keep properly refrigerated cuz of loadshedding So I'm stuck in the office for the day.
Today I wanna regale you guys a bit about Cyril Ramaphosa, the current president of South Africa, and head of the ANC. He managed to barely keep his job after this tumultuous recent election, and since the recent ANC congress in which he also managed to keep his position as head after vicious infighting.
For those of you unaware, back in 2018/2019 Ramaphosa was seen as an incredible beacon of hope after the decade of heck which the infamously corrupt Jacob Zuma had finally been ousted from the ANC, and from the presidency of the country. I made like 5 fricking Longposts just to fully cover the extraordinary degrees of corruption in which Zuma was involved, including the most economically devastating being when Zuma literally sold entire industries into tender for the equally corrupt Indian 
"Mafia" family, the Guptas.
By 2018, virtually every non-Zulu black person was sick of the monumental corruption and economic devastation brought upon by Zuma's regime, and even the average black person had to admit that the ANC under Zuma's leadership had become such a husk, even though the filthy mayos had been clamoring about Zuma's ineptitude since 2005 - but the everpresent SA racial wingcuckery 
meant it took 12 years before black people finally became disenfranchised.
THE 54th AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS (2017):
Before 2018, Ramaphosa had been quietly sitting outside the true echelon of powers as Deputy President from 2012 - 2018, and was unknown to safricans at that time, both because he never held actual influence and because Zuma and his family and cohorts dominated media week in and out due to his endless slurry of debacles and corruption. But he would reach a near instant meteoric rise in late 2017, when he would challenge the Zumas for ultimate power in the ANC party.
You see by late 2017, Zuma had been so mired in corruption scandals 
by this point that even the internal ANC leadership feared they might lose their 60% supermajority if they had the gall to run the ANC platform once again for the 2018 coming election. You see the ANC has held an (African) National Congress for almost century to choose their leaders, which is how the party had gotten its name.
The 2017 would be known as the 54th National Congress, and would garner the MOST attention of any party's internal election in the history of South Africa at that point. By 2017 internet and mobile data, along with near universal mobile phone private ownership had proliferated to enough of the SA public, that websites like Facebook and Twitter had become large enough within the SA awareness to affect discourse. 
Entire media caravans would literally fricking 
camp out, outside Johannesburg Expo Centre in Nasrec, Gauteng - some an entire week prior to the event, as this party election was EVEN MORE hotly anticipated than the actual 2018 national general election would follow in 2018.
This was because fricking nobody expected the ANC to have less than their traditional 55-60% supermajority, and thus continue their monopolistic rule as they had for the past 25 years, and thus the internal leadership was of utmost and absolute significance to both the ordinary south african layman, and those following SA politics in the media.
By 2017 virtually every non-Zulu ANC member was fricking sick of Zuma, both for his open corruption, his selling out of tenders to family members and the Guptas, and making heaploads of enemies in the ANC party itself. YET EVEN THEN, the Zuma extended family still held enormous sway within in the ANC.
Zuma's literal wife, Nkosazana 
Dlamini-Zuma, would run for the Zuma faction, in her husband's stead, and would basically allow Jacob Zuma himself to retain power and act as shadow president of the nation. Th entire election campaign for internal ANC powerbases was filled with controversy, as Zuma was gradually becoming radioactive. Yet in spite of that, it appeared as if the Zuma family would yet again emerge victorious.
The entire party election was MONUMENTALLY close, and was a pretty shocking occurrence for the nation which had been held under domination by the Zuma family up until this point.
RAMAPHOSA BECOMES PREZ:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/12/18/cyril-ramaphosa-wins-anc-leadership-vote
This created shockwaves throughout the country, as many corrupt officials had become complacent to the idea of not having to compete for their posts, and literally buying their way or bribing their way into power under Zuma's regime. A new contender for presidency was also new to many laymen people who knew next to nothing about this Ramaphosa dude.
The Zuma backers were pretty pissed about this 
BLACK POLITICIAN ACCENTS DURING ZUMA REGIME:
Now Ramaphosa in 2018 actually managed to bring forth a beacon of hope for many in the country, both black and white, after his 1st speeches, often winning people over quite literally after hearing him speak, often because of the manner in which he spoke English, compared to his predecessor Zuma.
You guys need to understand that [1] traditionally black peeps in SA have not had a great command of the English Language, both in terms of accent and in terms of speaking it well. Usually it was Coloureds, in their proximity to SA brits which commanded the best english, compared to all the other non-white ethnicities. Though Afrikaners don't have good accents either, in comparison they have were far more educated, fluent and had understandable accents, in a similar capacity to the Netherlands, which traditionally are the best English speakers of the european continent. The accents are trash, but the written word and fluency tend to overcome that in the business environment to a great degree.
https://leapscholar.com/blog/english-speaking-countries-in-europe/
Black peeps in South Africa, especially black boomers usually didn't have command of the english language that well, and the unfairness of Afrikaans and English being both european tongues, compared to African languages, AND THEN combining that with a longlasting lack of tertiary education for black peeps in the country, meant that many had bad english accents and bad fluency. Additionally Bongs tended to have themselves relegated to teh Eastern and Western Cape provinces, while Boers were far more wider spread throughout the country in the other 7/9 provinces, and especially inland.
Thus, even without taking the systemic racism of the NP party and the Apartheid regime into account, the average black person when exposed to europeans prior to democratization, would be far more likely to speak afrikaans than english, but as many as a factor 3:1 or 4:1 in comparison.
Yet in spite of this, English would indeed become the dominant language of the country and in Parliament, both for the practicality of black leaders needing to know English to speak to foreign dignitaries, and because of the intense hatred of which many ANC veterans had of Afrikaans as language of the oppressor, and trumped their hatred of boers in particular more than whites in general.
Which is an ironic point because so many black boomers, and thus black politicians........don't......speak it so well uh 
To especially make this point on the average lack of English fluency of the average South African politician, you just need to listen to one Youtube clip of an especially disruptive and boisterous slapfight between SA politicians 
during a parliamentary session, in which the Speaker of the house, in an EVEN WORSE accent than that of the average Afrikaans speaker (which is a bar as low as shark shit shade in the abyss).
Many black boomers can also be very sensitive about their lack of English fluency, especially in wider context of them speaking worse than SA whites on average, and the humiliation they suffered under Apartheid as being seen as uneducated.
It didn't help that very little meritocracy was practiced when a critical amount of ANC politicians found their way into Parliamentary positions, many often quite literally without a highschool degree.
EXAMPLES:
HONNORA-RUBLE!!!! MEMBA OF THA PARLIAMENT!!!!!1
"WE SEE HONNONONORABBLE MEMBARS USING THEYRR HEADS TO HARM OTHERS!!!" 
Here's a video of even Julius Malema calling Jacob Zuma a corrupt bastard in his last address to the nation.
ZUMA MOCKS MMSUSI'S PRONNCIATION OF NKANDLA:
It also needs to be understood that Jacob Zuma was very Trumpian in his speech manners, both in Zulu and English, he would make wild accusations, talk and ramble endlessly and behave very crass and low-class sometimes. His command of the Zulu language gave him charisma towards his own people, but his crassness in English made him seem illiterate, not just influent in English.
Also in one hilarious moment, Zuma would mock then-DA (Democratic Alliance) leader Mmusi Maimane in a speech, when Mmusi called out Jacob Zuma for his embezzlement in his infamous Nkandla Residence scandal. Like I'm going on a tangent, BUT YOU GUYS NEED TO UNDERSTAND THIS SHIT!!!! 
FIRST: Just listen to Mmusi's speech for like 30 seconds, he's got a strong accent but a handsome one, along with a strong and handsome voice. While not spectacular, the DA was decisively more meritocratic than their ANC peers, especially with their black members, whom on average tended to be more educated and with tertiary education on their CVs.
SECOND: Now compare fricking Zuma lmoa Not that bad, but certainly not better than Mmusi's accent, which is gonna be important. He pretty much never ever made any speech not looking down on his fricking exam pad and often read like 2-3 words at a time - like that slowest member of class which always sucked at reading the prescribed book. Now again, an african leader not being well versed in a european language shouldn't be the sole judge of their leadership potential, but oh my God Jacob Zuma genuinely was as r-slurred as his speech pattern!
The shining moment between Jacob Zuma & Mmusi Maimane was after Mmusi made a speech on Zuma's embezzlement of tax money for his infamous Nkandla Residence, Zuma would go full schoolboy mode and MOCK Mmusi's pronunciation of Nkandla, both as a Trumpian abrasive manner to divert attention from the Nkandla corruption scandal, but also becuase Zuma was genuinely that crass.
But it's also important to know Zuma was charismatic in how own way, especially to his own powerbase, and his own Zulu supporters.
Like holy shit just watch this 2 minute video in which Zuma made rebuttal after Mmusi called out Zuma and Nkandla. You can literally hear endless laughing and jeering in parliament as Zuma proceeds to mock Mmusi.
Where Zuma remarks that, when you listened to Mmusi and his strong and educated English accent, you "can think you live in another world." Where Zuma implied, due to his educated sounding accent, that Mmusi was divorced from the average poor black person in South Africa, Zuma effectively literally semi-called Mmusi a race-traitor because of his accent being divorced from that of the average black person.
And instead of defending himself, or even waving off the extreme allegations of Zuma stealing public taxes, to fund his rural megamansion, Zuma proceeded to try and humiliate Mmusi's pronunciation of Nkandla, which is off to the Zulu ear, both because Mmusi was Xhosa and because of his tertiary education in English.
I go on and on on this massive tangent, because of how EXTRAORDINARY this moment in RSA politics was, both in its insanity, and as a microcosm of South African culture!!! Like holy actual fricking shit, i know none of you dramatards will watch the youtube videos i list, but just listen this one clip to understand the context.
In this moment in time, in 2015, a black man, leader of the nation, mocked the black accent of ANOTHER black man, because it sounded too educated/ too different. Thus mocking his ethnic background ANC implying that he was a race-traitor spending too much time with DA whites, to be able to properly pronounce a relatively common placename by Zulus, the most populous demographic of the country, and thus the mispronunciation of Mmusi supposedly made him too divorced from the average poor black, to be able to rightfully critisize Zuma for his corruption.
It sounds r-slurred, but Zuma would play this up for his powerbase, and his ANC-supporters and Zulu-powerbase. To try and make a comparison for Burgers 
it was like Elizabeth Warren being humiliated by Trump when he called her Pocahontas 
in one of his crass insults, which was very effective,
because it didn't matter if Warren was competent/foolish, her entire perception by the public (or at least Trump's powerbase) was shaped by this one crude insult - because Trump effectively brought attention to the fact that Warren, like many shitlib Mayo 
women had abused the Progressive affirmative action of her university to help herself gain a position as a supposed Native American It is irrelevant if she actually has any 10% DNA of actual Native Indians, the perception is that she had lived as a pure White women for her entire life and had never suffered discrimination like actual feather-wearing Native yanks had, and had used stolen minority valor with her white women shenanigans 
All of this was communicated in that one crass insult of trump, and similarly in 2015, so very much was communicated by Zuma onto his powerbase, to disregard Mmusi's very real accusations of the Nkandla corruption scandal brought up in parliament.
Zuma would in black safrican meme circles be circulated mocking Mmusi's pronunciation of Nkaaaaandla! 
Once again an absolutely extraordinary 2 minutes caught on camera.
Because ANC wingucks and Zuma wingcucks would basically bat for Zuma in insanity like this, even as the literal ground minerals beneath our feet were being stolen by Indians and Chinese companies.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-32929411
TREVOR NOAH COMMENTS:
Now this moment became so famous that even Trevor Noah would comment about it in one of his Stand-Up routines (Yes the Trevor Noah which replaced Jon Stewart in that shitty racially wincucked Talkshow for shitlibs) Yet for his Stand Up comedy, Trevor Noah was genuinely GENUINELY funny and fair in his social commentary.
Here is Tevor Noah commenting Zuma's speech pattern and the extreme irony of Zuma pooping on Mmusi's pronunciation of Nkandla, when he himself is so extraordinary garbage at English himself! (VERY FUNNY WATCH IT YOU STRAGS)
Below is a Youtube video compilation of Trevor Noah's many jokes of Zuma, and the specific moment when Trevor mocks Zuma's mocking of Mmusi starts at 23:30 to 30:30
RAMAPHOSA'S CLEAR ACCENT AND SPEECH COMPARED TO ZUMA - AN INSPIRATION TO HOPE:
Yeah i needed to give you guys context just to comprehend the insanity and crassness and stupidity involved with Zuma's speeches specifically and all those imbeciles beneath him. Literally near 15 years of sub-preschool level english reading levels in Parliament and crass baffoonery
So when peeps heard Ramaphosa speak for the 1st time as President of South Africa, a heapload of peeps got hopeful. Compared to Zuma, Ramaphosa spoke with respect and clarity, for the 1st time since Nelson Mandela, safrican peeps heard someone speak english with clarity, and didn't sound like a fricking pre-schooler struggling to read the prescribed book,
Additionally the content of his speeches also gave hope, and his platform of anti-corruption gave many the indication that cleaning house would follow soon in his election in 2018.
Just to give you guys a fricking indication of just HOW hopeful Ramaphosa inspired the nation, literal "Markets rallied strongly the day after Ramaphosa assumed the presidency with stocks rising and the rand reaching its firmest since early 2015. Government bonds also increased in strength."
Complete opposite when compared to when Erdogan got reelected in Roachland.
https://www.moneyweb.co.za/news-fast-news/stocks-rally-as-ramaphosa-seen-as-watershed/
Ramaphosa emphasised the need to grow the economy of South Africa, increase tourism and youth employment, as well as reduce the size of the Cabinet. In this speech, Ramaphosa also focused on the importance of keeping Mandela's legacy alive.
Foreigners would also have warmer relationships with Ramaphosa, than with the corrupt Zuma, and international white foids with BBC fetishes would fall for him and praise his COVID response during the pandemic, where he was compared much more favorably than r-slurs like Bolsenaro.
Additionally in 2020 many foreigners and locals would hear him speak in his golden voice, in which he sounded calm, respectful, competent and in control.
Here is a video of him in 2020, where he struggled to put on a facemask, humanizing him to the public, and demonstrating he was a proactive leader in a crisis at the time, when other leaders even denied the very existence of the Pandemic, or at least this was how he was perceived at the time.
A completely different type of character, and a public servant figure much more prone to inspiring confidence and adoration.
My own father lead a committee of farmer strags in the GRAINSA, to communicate with Ramaphosa's cabinet in 2018 on his future policies for Agriculture in the country, and boers legitimately came from these meetings hopeful that "Adults were now in charge at the ANC" and that for the 1st time actual ANC members were communicating with famer organizations of policymaking for foodsecurity and shit - you know actual 1st world class type of gov behaviour.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-44238549
Ramaphosa even vowed to donate half his salary to the biggest black philantrophy organization in the country, truly this man was our salvation
Unfortunately the dark dim truth was that Ramaphosa, was alongside all of the ANC stooges since 2000s very very corrupt. He just had a shiny veneer over his past, and a golden voice (literally) to fool peeps. 
THE REALITY OF RAMAPHOSA:
Despite all the propaganda and wingcuckery, many peeps had pointed out way back in 2017 that though Ramaphosa wasn't as bad as Zuma and had a golden exterior, he was still just as corrupt as the average ANC stereotype. He had been there in the ANC command inner circle post prez-Mbeki since 2005 and though Ramaphosa had never been close to real power prior to 2018, he had been FULLY AWARE of just how thievingly corrupt every single motherlover on the Zuma inner circle had been had been.
I don't remember, I think he's Venda? But because he wasn't Zulu himself, he was overlooked by the powerful Zulu bloc under Zuma, and was himself not really liked by Zuma himself.
As the years passed beyond 2018, and the aging and failing 30 year old national infrastructure continued to plague the nation, and roads became filled with potholes, and electric wires kept being stolen, and an actual draining of the swamp filled with the corrupt politicians under Zuma's regime failed to manifest, so too did the hope and adulation for Ramaphosa waiver.
Articles of Ramaphosa's involvement or at least awareness of Zuma and the Guptas, and the myriad metric shitload amounts of provincial and municipal level corruption scandals under Ramaphosa's leadership, showcased he was just as aware and willingly complicit in all of the robbing of Safrica's taxes into the pockets of ANC politicans.
For all his Golden speeches, it became clear Ramaphosa had no intention of rooting out the worst offenders of the Public sector under his jurisdiction
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-49052112
RAMAPHOSA AND THE UGANDAN COWS CONTROVERSY:
But the final straw, which snapped the camel's back in dispelling the illusion for the public that Ramaphosa wasn't just Zuma 2.0, was cattle!
Ankoles are Arican cattle bred from 700 years ago in Uganda, they are most famous for their giant horns.
They were specifically bred to have giant horns, which were status symbols in the way giant phallic things are for men 
Though these cattle did have large horns compared to Europeans to begin with, likely as successful defense mechanisms against literal lions, the Ugandan ancestors would breed these herds to have especially rediculous horn sizes, which are not universally popular by other commercial or subsistence farmers.
Because the giant horns take up tremendous energy to grow for the animal, both in terms of the nourishment it takes for the animal to grow them to that size, but also the amount of physical energy used up by the animal to just move its head around, these horns are not practical defense mechanisms, and can be easily outcompeded by cattle bulls with smaller and more proportional horns - these giant horns are purely an artificial human breeding element over 700 years. 
Due to the biltong and strong meat culture of South Africa, the extra sized horns are not as popular since it competes against the bulking muscle meat of the animal itself. 
The Ankoles cattle are still prized by Central Africans for their leather, milk and meat. And Ramaphosa had been importing and cultivating Ankoles since 2004. Ramaphosa has had exclusive right to sell Ankoles on the auction in South Africa ever since he became president, and others suspect he had abused his power of Deputy President since 2012, to enable his monopoly of selling Ankoles to black and white farmers in Safrica.
Cattle plays an astronomical role in Safrican culture, especially in rural black culture, and is the highest sign of prestige, in terms of the ability to show off or determine relative wealth in most rural black communities in places like Eastern Cape, the Free State and KwaZulu-Natal.
A poor man might possess 1 cattle, a middleclass man may possess 6-25 cattle and a rich black man might possess hundreds. I am not speaking hyperbole when I state for many black people like the Sothos of Free State or the Basothos of Lesotho, determine the wealth of a man by the amount of cattle he possesses, rather than the size of his mansion!!!
This weekend alone i talked with farmhands on my father's farm, whom work in Safrica during the schooldays and goes back to Lesotho during Semester vacations. One man literally bragged to us that he owned 25 cattle back in his home village in the mountains, looked after by the village herdsman.
By his own mind, even though he worked as meagre laborer in a foreign country, in which he barely spoke the local languages well, he was fricking Middle Class baby!!!
As you guys can imagine, Ramaphosa has made countless millions of Rands from this grift of selling such an exclusive product to his black countrymen, and few questioned this practice until "O1 June 2022, a man named Arthur Fraser filed a complaint against Ramaphosa."
The funny thing is peeps only became aware of Ramaphosa's grift after his own personal farm got broken into, and something like 600 000$ worth in cold cash got stolen, which led to the public speculating how the heck he got so rich!
Even now that enough Ankole cattle farmers exist within the country, that Ramaphosa is no longer the lone provider in the country, the whole Ankole Cattle Society, STILL continues to host their annual auction at Ramaphosa's farm. Make of that what you will. It's a bleeding open sore of corruption.
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