The remaining 10 weeks can be a long time. In short Zuma will at all cost retain and enforce his powers as president of the country until 2019. The December election will most probably go ahead as Zuma is more likely to shed power and leverage if it is postponed. For the same reason there may be a push from the Ramaphosa or Mkize side to defer the conference. The more likely is that it would go ahead amid big corruption and violence, and the outcome subjected to protracted legal battles. The main thing to us ordinary citizens is that whoever pulls the levers after December and in fact 2019, will not prosecute or otherwise even consider holding the corrupt and incompetent to book. It will simply be too politically risky for a number of reasons. Down to the roots of the ANC tree it is infected. This bird is not going to fly. We can only hope to contain damages and for a opposition take over in 2019.