Cyril has a ‘Cat’ meowing in the shadows

Lucas Ledwaba

The ANC’s 55^th elective conference in 2022 may be just about the last hurdle standing in David Mabuza’s way to becoming the party’s president and eventually, the country’s first citizen.

Well, only politics is not as simple and straightforward as critics often make it out to be.

Just last week Mabuza looked like a dead man walking, destined for the scrapheap of political history. In the court of public opinion he was a goner, a man who was going to be cut down to size by the ANC’s integrity committee.

It is now history that the man delayed his own swearing in as MP just hours before his colleagues took their oaths of office last week, to subject himself to the scrutiny of the party’s stalwarts.

But the plus side of it all was that Mabuza enjoyed uninterrupted attention from all and sundry, with the public, media,