SIKONATHI MANTSHANTSHA: Time for Cyril to ace out Ace
In a moment of his usual infectious optimism last Friday, my colleague Justice Malala, in a tweet, remarked on Cyril Ramaphosa’s swift and decisive victory over the long nightmare that has been the dominance of Jacob Zuma. Malala pointed out that it had taken Zuma a good nine months to eject Thabo Mbeki from the Union Buildings in 2008, even though he had an unassailable 60% majority in the national executive committee (NEC). "With just 53% support in #ANCNEC, Ramaphosa is turfing #Zuma out in less than six weeks in office as ANC president," Malala said — quite accurately, if prematurely. "Within that context, Ramaphosa is a super achiever." Yours truly, less optimistic and more impatient, perhaps unwisely fired back: "Are we clutching at straws for something positive?" This, Malala wisely ignored. My point was that, at that point, all we had to go on was that Ramaphosa had simply succeeded in preventing Zuma from opening parliament and delivering his last state of the nation addres...
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