ANALYSIS: When President Ramaphosa met Twitter

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ANALYSIS: When President Ramaphosa met Twitter By Rebecca Davis becsplanb

When President Cyril Ramaphosa took election campaigning to the digital sphere on Monday night, his advisers had clearly hoped that a level of chummy informality would prevail — judging, at least, from the chosen hashtag: #HolaMatamela.

The president used his Twitter platform to clarify that “the million houses issue in Alex is a huge distortion”, explaining that the figure of one million referred to the national housing target over five years rather than the allocation for Alex in particular. Ramaphosa defended this position on Twitter by citing the case of a KwaZulu-Natal “dispute between a Malawian and South African which led to two South Africans losing their lives”. He did not mention that the origins of the violence in question reportedly saw South Africans storming foreign-owned spaza shops.

Responding to another interlocutor, Ramaphosa said that resolutions taken by the ANC — of which land expropriation without compensation was the major outcome of the 2017 Nasrec conference — had to be implemented “with greater urgency”.

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