With his election to the ANC deputy presidency last December, Paul Mashatile has been gifted a horse and he is not wasting time with an examination of its teeth.

The deputy president is traversing the country, stepping up in parliament and in front of businesspeople, giving a word of advice here and soothing a worried brow there. Since his ascendance and his appointment as the country’s No 2 in March, the man has hardly stopped to celebrate that he had won two significant new positions. Instead, he is appearing all over the country as if he is still running for elected office...

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