Max du Preez
Jacob Zuma could well one day look back and realise that his move late in 2012 to make sure he won the ANC leadership battle by choosing Cyril Ramaphosa as his running mate had planted the seed of his own premature demise.
Zuma was well on his way to stunt and reverse the progress of political modernisation since the early 1990s. Ramaphosa, on the other hand, is a contemporary thinker, a sophisticated urbanite, world citizen and constitutionalist.