OPINION: The dead hand of Jacob Zuma that's throttling Cyril Ramaphosa | PieterDuToit SAElections2019
While President Cyril Ramaphosa is being driven to his voting station in the back of his black BMW with the number plates RSA1 on Wednesday, he will feel the dead hand of Jacob Zuma on his neck, and he will be worried about his party's future, writes PieterPresident Cyril Ramaphosa will be waking up in his Hyde Park home in Johannesburg today a deeply troubled man.
As his presidential motorcade makes its way from Hyde Park to Soweto, before he casts his vote at the Hitekani Primary School, he will wonder what fate awaits him and his party when the results are certified on Saturday afternoon. And he will most probably curse his predecessor, Jacob Zuma, for the mess he inherited when he took over the shambles that was state and party.
The ANC that Ramaphosa leads has been defiled and debased by the Zuma term of office. Some, like RW Johnson in his book, argue that the rot started under Mandela and that it was the arms deal in 1999 – where Thabo Mbeki and Trevor Manuel played a starring role – that was the party's original sin.
Ramaphosa has done his best to remind voters of the ANC's successes, but he is trading on a past that is long gone. His public appearances and speeches often rang hollow as he attempted to claim some victories from this government's term – but everything he said, everything he did and every promise he made came against the backdrop of state capture, grand corruption and poor governance.
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