BN Edge | Corporate cash, coalition pressure: WSM on who calls the shots

Who's the hot favorite, put it that way? It comes back to something: it really depends with the ANC whether Ramaphosa and his national executive leadership make the decision because it does revolve around them, makes a decision with its heart or with its mind. The heart of the ANC still beats very strongly along the extended family of

Of bad boys have been thrown out or have walked out and flounced out, EFF, MK. Now you even have SACP twittering on the edges there. So the heart of the ANC wants to take that route for very good reasons, not only because of the emotional ties of a struggle, but because that is the route that will continue to deliver the patronage politics that the ANC has thrived on.

Continue to deliver the corruption, maybe tidied up forms of corruption, but corruption will continue under that system. The mind, and here it is where Ramaphosa has the biggest leadership challenge of his tenure as a presidency. If he avoids that split and takes a high road where he does a deal with a party where they can work out some kind of

Of economic framework that brings growth. It's a no-brainer, you choose the DA. So it's whether it's heart or mind. So I really, I mean, I like betting, but this is not one I really easily put money on because there are so many important. You know, the thing with politicians is we think that they're going to take rational decisions. But I mean, we know from our experience,