I've seen some tweets on the timeline. I now see that people still don't understand Cyril Ramaphosa's Politics.

That man is what we call a 'Smiling Assassin'. He moves slowly, yet with aggression and violence.

Where he passes, he destroys.

A THREAD:
1. Politics is a game wherein your style of play determines how long you last on the field.

2. 'Clevers' don't last in Politics, only the 'smart' last. You have to play with a strategy, have tactics and exercise lot of patience.
Donald Trump was a 'clever', hence he never lasted and he's sitting at home as we speak.

One ought to exercise diplomacy and calculate his each and every move. You don't go on an outright attack if you gonna burn out.
Cyril is a man of processes and patience. He moves slowly BEHIND principles, policies, law and law enforcement units, NOT in front of them.

In 2005 Mbeki miscalculated the above principle and jumped the gun when he fired his D.P instead of letting the law take its course.
And that move by Mbeki made his DP more popular and powerful. That move came back to bite Mbeki hence he ended up 'not lasting' !
Ramaphosa seem to have perfected the above-mentioned principle, hence his opponents can no longer keep up.

Ace isn't crazy when he goes on a national T.V. and start indirectly criticizing Cyril. He's feeling Cyril's presence and violence and on the other side...
Cyril is exercising that precence and violence while laughing and being diplomatic.

Zuma isn't crazy as well when he takes stunts to try avoid the #StateCaptureCommission and violate the ConCourt.

That Commission is starting to become hot than Zuma anticipated it to be.
Cyril made that commission more dangerous when he allowed the evidence presented there to be directly accessible to the law enforcement agencies (Hawks, NPA, SIU, SARS etc), thus allowing those agencies to be able to take actions before Zondo recommends those decisions! BRILLIANT
The likes of @.koko_matshela, @.LuckyMontana19 and Brian Molefe are feeling Cyril's violence.

Hence the latest retaliations. He dealt with them decisively, and he's not finished with them yet. He's still coming for more violence.
Cyril is a content leader, very smart, calculating yet humble.

He would make a good President in well developed countries with lot of resources like the U.S.

His beliefs and ideologies are impressive. The building of Smart Cities, obedience to rule of law etc, BRILLIANT!
Those who think that Cyril won't finish his first term of office or even get a 2nd term, don't know what's waiting for them in store!

In fact, Cyril might go on to make history by being the first President to fully finish his 2nd term post-1994.
Never mistaken Cyril Ramaphosa's kind of leadership with that of a Weak President.

He might seems weak to you and i, but definitely his opponents don't see him as such. They see him as a threat which needs to be eliminated quickly.

THE END.
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