As constitutional darkness descends, Zuma is starting to feel the heat
'You have to go a long way back to find a cabinet which is so openly at war with itself'
The brilliantly funny 1993 movie Groundhog Day concerns an unpleasant weatherman, played by Bill Murray, who is covering the annual ritual of the groundhog emerging from its hole to predict the arrival of spring.But he is trapped in a time warp in a small, snow-bound town, and is forced to relive the same ghastly day again and again, until he gets it right.Groundhog Day - or a series of unwelcome events that recur in exactly the same way - could be the working title for the bizarre and dangerous goings-on in South Africa right now, except for the fact that none of them are funny.You need to have been under a rock this past week not to have noticed the rush of recent happenings washing over, if not overturning, our ship of state.So, without rehashing everything, let's look at the big difference between the events of the past week and the slew of other instalments from the horror show which the Zuma presidency has begun to resemble.Whether it was firing Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene...
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