As the clocked ticked away on Wednesday afternoon, radio silence from the politicians. President Cyril Ramaphosa must still have been consulting, as he does to an excruciating degree at every turn in our national story.

When it’s not with his the main opposition, the DA, or the six other parties lined up to join the government of national unity (GNU), it’s with his own ANC executive committee and then the ANC alliance partners. And then the traditional leaders. ..

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