The Times recently reported on President Zuma's cabinet "spruc[ing] up [the] shop" in preparation of upcoming visits by rating agencies.
The cabinet's task reminds one of the porcine proverb: "you can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig". It will be interesting to see if Zuma and his cabinet can do the impossible by making a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
Until such time as the ANC government actually implements wide-ranging political and economic reforms, the country's sovereign credit rating will not be upgraded.
ANC government's promises to effect change do not sway rating agencies, unless meaningful change takes place. There is a problem, however, as Zuma and his cabinet fail to understand that one can, in the words of Barak Obama, "wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called 'change'. It's still gonna stink after eight years".
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