I’m all for accountability, but you have to admit that threatening Cyril Ramaphosa with a vote of no confidence feels a bit mean, coming just a year after we held a national vote of no confidence in which 60% of the electorate queued for hours to tell him they don’t trust him to run a bath.

Of course, Ramaphosa has a thick skin, and not only because he sometimes has to rough it on 150-count linen when he’s on the campaign trail. He’s been around the block a few times, mostly as his limo driver tries to find a parking spot, and he knows how unlikely any of this is to happen, mostly because nobody except Jacob Zuma wants it to happen, and certainly not the DA, whose idea it was in the first place. ..

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