It’s time SA prepared itself for the possibility of a ‘Mabuza Presidency’

Lucas Ledwaba

Cyril Ramaphosa’s deputy David Mabuza doesn’t really have the kind of hungry look that worried Julius Caesar about his rival Cassius in the Shakespearean classics.

Neither does he look dangerous or noble. At best, he resembles an old-fashioned rural school teacher who doubles up as a struggling taxi owner after school hours.

Well, before entering the cut throat world of politics, Mabuza worked as a school teacher specialising in mathematics, always solving for the elusive x and toying with theorems and formulae. He is also reputed to be a good chess player.

For years he has been dogged by a reputation – ruthless, calculating, cunning and plotting player.

This might be the reason Ramaphosa, like Caesar, should be worried about the intentions of his number two who postponed his swearing in as MP this week.

Worried about the men around his circle, Ceasar confides in his right-hand man