THICK END OF THE WEDGE
Zuma floundering in a sea of discontent
How does this all end? On Wednesday President Jacob Zuma led the standing ovation Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan received when he entered the National Assembly to deliver his medium-term budget policy statement. By the end of it, he had fallen asleep, much to the amusement of social media as a photo of him slumped in his seat was widely circulated. Next Wednesday, Gordhan and two others appear in the High Court in Pretoria to face fraud charges triggered by a complaint by the head of the South African Revenue Service (SARS) and close Zuma associate, Tom Moyane. The pressures would sink a lesser man but Gordhan, riding a tidal wave of public support, seems unfazed. On Thursday, a sensational story was published on the Mail & Guardian website. Apparently the Hawks, a branch of the police intensely loyal to Zuma and which had been urgently pushing the fraud charge, had held hostage in the SARS building a senior official who was refusing to hand over a document related to the Gordhan c...
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