Barely a day has passed in the last four months without someone saying how much more comfortable Cyril Ramaphosa looks sharing power. And how good he is at it.

It’s been quite a turnaround. When the year began he was the loyalist who put party over country, the weak man without the balls to go after the corrupt, the vacillating man unable to make a decision. Is he still all of those things? Or has the discipline of the government of national unity (GNU) changed him? How should we be thinking about the president now? ..

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