Cyril Ramaphosa is in deep trouble, following a bombshell report into a only in South Africa scandal. It involves a score of Buffalo, a Sudanese businessman and hundreds of thousands of dollars stolen from inside a sofa. The whole affair will in any case undercut the very narrative of his presidency. He ran for leader of the ANC promising to root out the endemic corruption in the party that had flourished under previous President Jacob Zuma.
South Africa’s leader says a pile of cash stashed in a sofa represents no wrongdoing. The outcome of an investigation could be the undoing of his presidency and his party. We examine Britain’s hydrogen-economy plans as representing the tradeoffs that many countries will face. And remembering Jay Pasachoff, the world’s foremost expert on and exponent of eclipses.
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