As predicted, Cyril Ramaphosa won re-election to lead his party for another five years. Good luck to him as he jumps back into the crocodile-infested river that is the ANC.

Before we put the leadership contest to bed, though, there are two aspects from it that I still find disconcerting. It is what Ramaphosa knows about his new deputy, Paul Mashatile, and what made him so unattractive as a running mate...

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