THE THICK END OF THE WEDGE: Save us from this man of consequences
Only the Treasury and the Reserve Bank remain out of the Zuptas' clutches and the fight for these two is on, writes Peter Bruce
I have got to the stage where I study photographs of Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan with a forensic regard. Is he healthy? Is he becoming more or less puffy in the face? Is puffy in the face a sign of anything bad? The onslaught on Gordhan is immense. President Jacob Zuma insults him almost every time he stands before an audience. Emboldened, the wealthy Gupta family is more than comfortable, in court papers, to call him a "weak-kneed politician" — a bit rich when you consider they arrived here only when it was safe and if you remember Atul Gupta’s quivering apology to the nation after his family used Waterkloof airbase as the arrivals lounge for a family wedding. Between them, Zuma and the Guptas (the Zuptas, as Julius Malema fabulously named them) have hijacked the South African state for their own gain. Only the Treasury and the Reserve Bank remain out of their clutches and the fight for these two is on. Sure, it starts with the Treasury but the central bank would have to be the...
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