So far, Cyril Ramaphosa has pulled some grandmaster moves, to the frustration of some comrades and their slates who have underestimated his mastery of the grand ANC chess game.
I have always contended that South Africa has a functional government for only two years of the five that are prescribed by the Constitution, these being the first two years. How so? After the general elections and the induction of the new Cabinet, we have a year of “getting used to portfolios” and generating policies. This is common in all portfolios as ministers seldom continue where a predecessor left off. As a result, we are always taking two steps forward and one step back.
After the ANC’s elective conference, you are likely to get a change in leadership that spills over to government leadership. This is the period when South Africa has twice experienced what I call “transitional leadership”. Such a transitional government is the child of factional ANC conferences. We saw this at the Polokwane ousting of Thabo Mbeki as party president, and it was repeated in the Nasrec ousting of Jacob Zuma.
So far, he has pulled some grandmaster moves, to the frustration of some comrades and their slates who have underestimated his mastery of the grand ANC chess game. Mbeki’s chat with the PIC ended with a recommendation for member re-registration. The outcome drove the narrative that there is disunity in the province that can be attributed to those who have been leading it — and it came with a recommendation to get rid of “thugs” who had penetrated the movement. The level of support Magashule enjoys during his court appearances will show whether Mbeki’s sojourn as Ramaphosa’s Free-State knight in shining armour has been effective.
David Mabuza, heir apparent to the ANC presidency and to the position as the republic’s number one citizen, seems to have outlived the many lives he should have been able to secure as the sly cat he is touted to be. It seems that his move to back Ramaphosa at Nasrec for which he was awarded the deputy presidency role — for both the ANC and country — has not worked entirely to his advantage. The man has been overshadowed by his principal.
Is Mabuza likely to return in any capacity? If he still has any of the qualities that made him the most feared leader in Mpumalanga, perhaps he will. But as it stands, he has quietly become a pawn of the Thuma Mina slate.
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