SA became the darling of the world when Nelson Mandela overcame the odds and led a national movement of reconciliation in what had become, under apartheid, a pariah state.

A quarter of a century later, we witnessed the ascension to power of the man who stood beside Madiba when he emerged from prison and said, “I stand before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people”...

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