So+who+is+it+gonna+be,+Vukani+Mde,+Weekender

Business Day Weekender, Johannesburg, 2006/07/29 12:00:00 AM
=So who’s it gonna be?=


 * Vukani Mde**

IN ANY other democracy, Cyril Ramaphosa wouldn’t be running scared at the mere suggestion that he is a presidential hopeful for the ANC national conference next year. In any other democracy, with less than 18 months to go before the December 2007 ANC conference, it wouldn’t be a guessing game trying to decide who is and who isn’t interested in the job. In fact, in any other democracy we could look forward to electing the president directly in 2009.

But this is SA. Here Ramaphosa must duck and dive and deny that he covets a job that anyone would want. Here he risks being accused of “plotting” to topple the sitting duck … I mean, incumbent. Recall that this has already happened. Here he could soon have a criminal rap facing him if he’s not careful. So our Cyril did the dutiful thing this week. He called Smuts Ngonyama, Kgalema Motlanthe, Jacob Zuma, Thabo Mbeki and anyone else who could be pissed off and told them “it wasn’t me”.

Sort it out people. We want to know already: who’s it gonna be?


 * From: http://www.businessday.co.za/Articles/TarkArticle.aspx?ID=2159774**

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