JONNY STEINBERG: Cyril Ramaphosa’s clear eye lacks the vision of Mandela
Madiba’s leadership hinged on an ability to see the big picture and bring it to life through symbolism
19 September 2019 - 11:48
The political figure Cyril Ramaphosa most wants to emulate, he has said on several occasions, is Nelson Mandela. He aspires to govern by consensus, he says, not by diktat, and when it came to coaxing agreement from unlikely people, Mandela was the true master.
Inviting a comparison between his own leadership and Mandela’s is a dangerous business for Ramaphosa. Mandela was in so many ways starkly different to him, and the juxtaposition reveals Ramaphosa’s limitations...
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