Those with eyes, ears, a heart and a brain can’t help but realize that South Africa and its people are in serious trouble – in as deep trouble as a seven-year-old who’s toppled into a pit latrine at some godforsaken rural school – that the ANC is largely and clearly responsible for this, and that, moreover, at this juncture, a great deal depends on what Ramaphosa, nominally the head of the ANC and the government, will do.