POLITICS LIVE: After the Gupta chorus comes Zuma's aria
This appears to confirm the speculation that Zuma desires a Cabinet reshuffle in which Gordhan would lose his job
The performance began with the Gupta court papers in which they conceded the legal point that the finance minister, Pravin Gordhan, was not legally empowered to intervene in the relationship between banks and their clients. The banks being Absa, Standard Bank and others and the clients (make that ex-clients) being the Gupta businesses that had their accounts closed because of a string of malodorous transactions. Despite conceding the central legal point, they used the stage provided by the court papers to sing a song of political intrigue. It's lyrics identified Gordhan as a political campaigner for 'white monopoly capital' and its many devils. Cue the ANC Youth League, stage left, which picked up the tune with more venom about 'white monopoly capital'. Cue the Twitter trolls (by now '#WMC' was a hashtag), paid and unpaid, who screeched out their horror. Then the stage went dark and quiet as the scenery (the white-clothed trestle tables of a cabinet lekgotla) was shuffled about. The...
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