Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan is now to be charged with fraud. Zuma still faces 783 corruption charges that a high court ordered the NPA to reinstate, but they did nothing.Hundreds, if not thousands, of people are saying these NPA charges against Gordhan are politically motivated and are just intimidation. High profile people such as Jay Naidoo, Sipho Pityana, Moletsi Mbeki, Trevor Manuel, Jackson Mthembu, retired judges, constitutional experts, analysts and political commentators have joined the outrage on social media and elsewhere. They should lead a concerted #ZumaResignNow campaign.Zuma is a wily beast, slouching ungainly like a hyena along the dark edges of government, using his intelligence training, a deep, ugly cunning, and “captured individuals” to power his patronage networks. Smoke and mirrors, false flags and undercover ops help achieve his nefarious aims. Why is it he is always out of the country when major “actions” occur?The clearest recent example is the early mor...

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