ANC national chairperson Gwede Mantashe says South Africans should be patient with ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa as he holds transition talks with President Jacob Zuma. Ramaphosa has been lobbying for Zuma to resign and hopes to conclude talks with him in the next ’coming days’. Addressing an ANC rally in Mpumalanga, Mantashe said ANC officials should be fearless and must be able to make difficult decisions, but said leaders also had a duty to "analyse and mitigate risks". "There is no disagreement about where we want to go (on Zuma) but the tactics on how to do that is the responsibility of leadership," Mantashe said. Speaking to the SABC after his speech, Mantashe said people should give the ANC space to manage a "very complex situation". "Allow (Ramaphosa) to lead, Leadership is a science, a profession and also an art. Allow Cyril Ramaphosa to execute and use his art and his personality to manage this," said Mantashe. Ramaphosa, who negotiated on behalf of the ANC in talks to end...
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