Hmm, that is a valid question, who would be the most plausible leaders in contention for the position of President in post-apartheid South Africa? From the ANC party or otherwise.
Perhaps Walter Sisulu, Ahmed Kathrada or Oliver Tambo etc. It's interesting to think of the results of different political leadership in South Africa
Well Tambo is going to be difficult, cause he died in '93
Walter Sisulu was probably too old, already being in his '80s, and Ahmed Kathrada is out of the question, because he isn't of African origin.
What would have been more likely is that Thabo Mbeki would have been President. In actual fact Nelson Mandela reportedly didn't want to be President because he felt that he was too old, but he was persuaded by the ANC leadership to run. By all accounts by 1996, Thabo Mbeki was the de facto President of SA, in charge of the day-to-day running of the country, while Mandela had become a figurehead.
If Mbeki was President from 1994 that could be quite interesting, the country would probably be more polarised than it is now, having lost out on Mandela's reconciliatory stance, and having had Mbeki's more adversarial, dictatorial style of Government five years earlier. It is unlikely that Zuma would be President now, as he was essentially a creation of Mbeki after having become his Deputy in 1999.
Not a bad question by Richie, but poorly thought out.