There is a good chance that President Cyril Ramaphosa will keep Malusi Gigaba on as finance minister. But should he? This week, Gigaba revealed to the world that the governing ANC was about to put the knife into Jacob Zuma when he went on CNN to reveal the deadline the party had set the president and how it would boot him out if he did not meet it. Gigaba looked for all the world like a man in Ramaphosa's corner as he sat in the CNN studio with its Table Mountain backdrop and spoke the sober language of good governance. I wondered if Zuma watched the performance on CNN and muttered "Et tu, Malusi?" The former head of state was Gigaba's patron and had entrusted him with three vital cabinet portfolios: home affairs, public enterprises and finance. It must have hurt Zuma to see the 46-year-old minister turn against him. Gigaba is a master chameleon. A protégé of former president Thabo Mbeki, the popular former president of the ANC Youth League was made deputy home affairs minister unde...
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