The choices Ramaphosa has to make

As I sit to write this month’s missive, it seems the Zuma moment will be behind us soon. As I write, I am listening to a news bulletin in which it is being reported that African National Congress (ANC) reasurer-general Paul Mashatile told a group of businesspeople at the Mining Indaba, in Cape Town, that the Top Six of the ruling party had asked President Jacob Zuma to resign as head of State. According to Mashatiele, who was not aware he was being recorded, Zuma told them to put the idea of his resignation as President of South Africa in a very dark place, where the sun never shines. This revelation came on the very day Zuma was supposed to deliver the State of the Nation Address (Sona). As you know, the presiding officers of Parliament – the Speaker of the National Assembly and the chairperson of the National Council of Provinces, had announced the postponement of Sona a few days earlier.