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President Cyril Ramaphosa and DA leader John Steenhuisen after MPs were sworn into the National Assembly. (Photo by Gallo Images / Sowetan / Esa Alexander)
The ANC needs to make a legitimate choice, and it is that party’s choice to make: does it want a stable inclusive government or should it go along with two alternative choices, writes Tony Leon.
Realpolitik – or the triumph of ruthless pragmatism in pursuit of national ends – is a word correctly associated with Germany’s “Iron Chancellor” Otto von Bismarck, whose 19 years in office (1871-1890) forged the modern German state.
Popularly, but apparently incorrectly, attributed to Bismarck is the aphorism: “Anyone who loves the law or sausages should never watch either of them being made.”
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