While pondering the latest attacks on President Cyril Ramaphosa’s new dawn vision, I felt that there may be merit in a cabinet reshuffle, my point being that the only way for the new dawn to yield any positive results is if there is “national consensus”.

Ramaphosa needs to co-opt more opposition parties in his government to run a stable project of building a capable developmental state. Already in his cabinet is an official party leader, Patricia de Lille, a good strategic move to forge a state of nationhood that rises above the factional trappings of the ANC. ..

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