It has been only four months since President Jacob Zuma’s "night of the long knives" cabinet reshuffle and already, he has a finance minister problem.

Zuma keeps making the same mistake, thinking that by appointing a loyalist, he can rely on his personal relationship to manipulate the minister into giving him and his friends what they want.

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