Will he go for broke?
BRUCE'S LIST: Zuma: when the joker shuffles the pack
Reshuffle? Try Nkosazana for deputy president, Cyril to finance, Molefe as his deputy
It can sometimes seem we South Africans live in a permanent state of apocalypse. We don’t really. Imagine the shock to normal balanced Americans of Donald Trump. Still, we are at an important political inflection point now. The annual budget will be delivered tomorrow by a man the president of the country wants to fire. The president wants to reshuffle his cabinet for two reasons. He needs to find a job for his former wife and chosen successor as head of the ruling party, and he wants to bring into cabinet a man close to his (the president’s) cronies and who he thinks would be capable of running national treasury. The forthcoming reshuffle, which will occur, will be Zuma’s last real bite of the political cherry before he is replaced as party leader this December (or earlier, possibly) and becomes a titular head of state for 18 months more. He has to make it count. Do not be surprised, therefore, if he goes for broke. His successor choice, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, is not universally p...
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