ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule betrayed his factional loyalties by pooh-poohing assertions that Cyril Ramaphosa’s ANC presidency has paid electoral dividends for the party. As a card-carrying member of the PAC I hold no candle for Ramaphosa, but he has obvious strengths. He is a polyglot who speaks to different African communities in their own languages. He applies what PAC founding president Robert Sobukwe referred to as the African personality, which Senegalese scholar, the late Cheikh Anta Diop, referred to as cultural identity. This is made up of three interrelated factors: linguistic, historical and psychological. None of his immediate predecessors employed this approach, not even Magashule’s favourite, Jacob Zuma, whose leadership brought electoral misfortune to the ANC. Ramaphosa’s second strength is that he is respectful, humble and measured in his tone and speech, and I believe he is a good listener. These are qualities of a good leader. I can’t see Ramaphosa standi...
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