Ramaphosa throws the dice for the ANC as he signs NHI Bill into law

On the Saturday morning of December 16, 2017, President Jacob Zuma threw the dice.It was on the morning of the ANC’s 54th National Elective Conference and the anti-Zuma tide within the ANC was in full swing.His deputy, Cyril Ramaphosa had been pitted against Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma — Zuma’s preferred candidate for the presidency of the ANC — and all indications were that she was going to lose to Ramaphosa who had campaigned on the “new dawn” ticket of clean governance and anti-corruption.Despite the recommendations of the Heher Commission into the Feasibility of Fee-Free Higher…