Bruce's List
PETER BRUCE: I think we can assume Cyril has started campaigning
It’s no longer Cyril in the middle
Bruce’s List: A guide to informed reads. It is hard not to like Cyril Ramaphosa. He is decent, polite, charming, thoughtful and kind. I have always felt desperately sorry for the way he was scooped up into the Marikana scandal. And being Jacob Zuma’s deputy these past few years must have been extremely stressful. He cannot criticise Zuma in public, though everyone expects him to. He has worked like a Trojan not only to help give Zuma’s administration at least the appearance of normality and efficiency and he has taken a lot of abuse for his trouble. As he now enters the final stretch — the 2017 political year — of his final tilt at the presidency, can he begin to behave like a candidate? His main rival, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, is in open campaign mode. But Ramaphosa, trapped by circumstance and perhaps his own decency can’t quite bring himself to look like a contender. Here is his most recent public speech, yesterday at the Mandela Foundation in Johannesburg. It is a great speech an...
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