Ramaphosa Warns South Africa Faces Long Haul to Tackle Graft
- Anti-corruption drive faces fierce resistance, president says
- Ramaphosa says he considered resigning from Zuma’s cabinet
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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa warned efforts to tackle corruption that became endemic during his predecessor Jacob Zuma’s rule will be a protracted process because of fierce opposition.
Those who sought to loot state coffers “populated the structures in government with their acolytes, their own people, who in some instances continue in doing their bidding,” Ramaphosa told a judicial panel in Johannesburg that’s probing the graft. There “is resistance against things being done correctly,” he said on Thursday.