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Vol 66 No 19

Published 26th September 2025


South Africa

Parks Tau – Ramaphosa’s trade troubleshooter

A former African National Congress (ANC) Mayor of Johannesburg, Parks Tau’s career was in jeopardy after losing the mayoralty to the Democratic Alliance’s Herman Mashaba in 2016 after just one term: a party stronghold lost and a handsome ANC majority from 2011 wiped out. Then in 2019, after being elected to the Gauteng Assembly, Tau was overlooked for a senior job in the provincial government.

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