Cyril is the alpha but he's not Moses, plus 5 highlights from 'Vrye Weekblad'
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The latest dramas in the ANC are a triumph for Cyril Ramaphosa and the Ace Magashule camp was left with a bloody nose. Can Ramaphosa take this further, clean up the party and blow life into the economy?
It is tempting to wonder if Ramaphosa's famed long game, that he has been widely criticised for this year, was indeed the right one and if it is indeed bearing fruit.
His over-cautiousness hasn't always worked for him — Magashule has often outplayed him at ground level and portrayed his consensus-seeking as a weakness, while other factions inside the party were flourishing.
Read more about our politics and more news and analysis in this week's edition of Afrikaans digital weekly Vrye Weekblad.
We can safely begin to say the Covid-19 pandemic has counted in Ramaphosa's favour. He was the calm statesman addressing the nation, Zweli Mkhize the technocrat who managed the pandemic and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma did the dirty work and took the pain for it. Good cop, bad cop.
There are rumours of a cabinet reshuffle. Ramaphosa could use this to make cabinet smaller, as he promised to do last year.
Most people have by now realised that Ramaphosa is not a knight in shining armour, the Moses who has come to lead us out of the desert.
The state that he leads will have to be built up from the ground to be functional again.
At most, South Africans can hope that Ramaphosa now has more confidence and room to move so he can drag the country away from the precipice.