I am loath to say it, but in 30 years of democracy in SA the most talented political player to emerge by a country mile is Jacob Zuma.

He alone has mined down to the tectonic plates deep under SA’s social formation and shifted them to produce a politics that brings him power. Nobody else has come anywhere close to doing that. He is in a league of his own. ..

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