Thabo Mbeki shared his bed of nails, midnight-surfing the web with Essop Pahad; Kgalema Motlanthe has his sotto voce Ahmed Kathrada; Jacob Zuma might yet have his Ebrahim Ebrahim as his minister in the presidency. Perhaps, with the Cloetes and the Van der Bijls of 18th century Cape Town, Helen Zille speaks only to God. Time will tell. The four-term Democratic president Franklin D Roosevelt appointed two Republicans, Stimson and Knox, to head the War and Navy Departments; they in turn appointed those they trusted. “The top civilian staffs of the two principal departments for conducting the war were.
