Cyril Ramaphosa’s act reminds one of a man juggling several balls, some of them explosive, in the air. If he drops any one of them, the others will soon follow.
, based on what is better known as the “Miracle on the Hudson”, Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger goes from national hero to a pilot whose every decision and action are questioned by the Federal Aviation Administration. Sully, having managed to land his Airbus A320 on the Hudson River and safely evacuate all 155 passengers and crew members after being struck by a flock of birds, suddenly faced intense questioning of his qualifications, sobriety, even his personal relationships.
Sully’s accusers forgot about something called real life. It is never ideal, never clean or clear-cut, and only exceedingly rarely do we immediately know exactly what to think, feel or do. So when the flight simulations were run taking this into account, the flight could no longer get back to LaGuardia. Sully was fully vindicated, his great skills unquestioned once more.
I may or may not agree with Ramaphosa’s politics. For what it’s worth, I see in his attempts at limited reform more than a reminder of Mikhail Gorbachev’s years of futile attempts to save the Soviet Union under the leadership of a party that had lost its legitimacy long before he came to power. I see the clear intraparty constraints that Ramaphosa still cannot find the strength to break away from.
Accordingly, it is much more comfortable to look at the world in the rear-view mirror, once in possession of all-important hindsight. But the events we’re talking about now at Zondo were just a bunch of future possibilities. It was not at all a done deal that Zuma & Co would be out of power. What was a done deal was that JZ surrounded himself with a bunch of extremely dangerous people whose loyalty was not to South Africa but to him.
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