It is a signal of the occasions: in style strain on creaking political buildings throughout Africa.
Cyril Ramaphosa is strolling a tightrope act: radical calls for from the grassroots, and the issues of worldwide traders on the opposite.
And in style anger is already altering the face of Sudan and probably Algeria — college students, attorneys, familes and even parts of the navy are beginning to coalesce towards growing older regimes.
A dialog with The Africa Report Southern Africa editor Crystal Orderson, Editor in Chief Patrick Smith, and Managing Editor Nicholas Norbrook.