President Cyril Ramaphosa and his party may be in the steepest descent, but he remains the single most popular figure on the political landscape, writes Tony Leon.
The death last week of
pioneering sociologist Professor Edward Webster occasioned distant memories of
my 20-year-old self as a student in his industrial sociology class at Wits
University.
Eddie as he was universally called, was a Marxist academic, as were many in the faculty - but you did not need to drink his ideological Kool-Aid to be taken with his enthusiasm, learning and empathy.