THICK END OF THE WEDGE: Electorate and opposition could foil Zuma’s exit plan
A FRIEND reminds me that I wrote, late last November, about what it was that President Jacob Zuma still had to break to survive. By survive, I meant that he is able to control the succession to his twin jobs as head of the ANC and head of state. Only by doing that can he be sure never to do jail-time for the hundreds of counts of fraud against him. Appeals by himself and the National Prosecuting Authority against a high court order that the charges, rescinded in 2009, be reinstated are bound to fail.There will be delays in this process, but it is inexorable. There are no deals to be done. And he knows he will one day be brought before a court on the charges. But the successor — he hopes it will be his former wife, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma — will be able to pardon him only once he is found guilty. For Zuma, tragedy awaits.But to get Dlamini-Zuma into the job, he still has to deliver to the host of mouths wanting money and tenders and jobs from him. Not least among them his own party. H...
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