POLITICS LIVE: Join Zuma's dots and Gordhan's future looks bleak
The heady politics of the Gupta/Zuma camp in the first three weeks of January have been loudly laying the groundwork for something big ...
Rewind to a humid KwaZulu-Natal over Christmas where the political temperature was rising ... DOT ONE: Jacob Zuma explains the programme While everyone else was settling down to a quiet festive season, relieved that the antics of December 2015 (Remember Des van Rooyen?) were not repeating themselves, Zuma vented his feelings in a surprisingly candid manner. This is what he had to say at an "Economic Freedom" lecture organised by the ANC Youth League in Durban: "In December last year [2015], I took a decision informed by what I am talking about and appointed a minister of finance, and monopoly capital and their friends and their stooges attacked me and they are still attacking me today.… The question is if the president takes another decision, are we ready? "I can tell you sitting on my own being pushed to reverse the decision, I said to myself, ‘This is what happens when the nation is not alert. When they do not even understand the actions taken and then they listen to the wrong nar...
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