It has been a dramatic week in which Cyril Ramaphosa’s election as ANC president in December has been followed up — more speedily than many might have expected — with some strongly positive signals of change. President Jacob Zuma is not gone, as many had hoped. However, the ANC’s national executive committee has resolved that he will have to go before the 2019 general election campaign gets under way and the governing party’s leadership is negotiating an exit package. Whether he will still deliver February’s state of the nation address remains unclear. But what is clear, meanwhile, is that Ramaphosa’s new leadership team is starting to call the shots and that the change at the top has unlocked action in some key areas. The law-enforcement authorities that had previously declined to do anything about state capture even as evidence of the dealings of the Gupta family and their corrupt counterparts mounted, have suddenly come to life. The National Prosecuting Authority’s (NPA’s) Asset ...
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