DAVID LEWIS: Kudos to the president for not letting this crisis go to waste
There are still many powerful opponents within the ANC of the path chosen by Ramaphosa
I’m a glass half-full sort. Not, I hope, in the irritating “there’s a silver lining to every dark cloud” way, but in my firm belief that I’ve never met an insoluble political problem. To paraphrase Marx, nothing that’s human should be alien to any of us. Right now the level of my glass is, for the first time in a while, higher than half-full.
Why? First, I’m struck — and, I readily admit, surprised — by the manner in which the ANC has accepted its electoral defeat. Of course it remains, by some considerable distance, the largest political party in the country. But its acceptance of its status as a minority party, no longer able to govern without the support of other parties, means it has lost its privileged status as a liberation movement. ..
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