The universally welcomed decision to postpone Thursday’s state of the nation address while the ANC wrestles with President Jacob Zuma to step down is the surest sign yet that the turnaround is imminent. That such a dramatic step was necessary to facilitate the leadership transition in the ANC is an indication of how difficult that transition is and the seriousness and resolve that now exists in the ANC to remove Zuma and install Cyril Ramaphosa in his place. While the postponement was really only necessitated by the messy and dysfunctional process of decision making in the ANC, the prospect of a Zuma-free administration was so enticing that it is not surprising that no opposition party could object to helping the ANC fix what was really an internal problem, with a major disruption to the political and government calendar. There is also the fact that everyone can now be spared the indignity of being addressed by a discredited president, whose speech would have been farcical given the...
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