SOME commentators have taken to likening President Jacob Zuma to Humpty Dumpty after his great fall. Their comments may have been elicited by a yolk joke Lindiwe Sisulu slipped into her recent diatribe on racism, or by some subliminal association related to the shape of the presidential cranium. Be that as it may, it does seem the chickens are coming home to roost on Zuma’s presidency.A proper analysis of the recent developments concerning the spats around and within the South African Revenue Service; the success of Robert McBride’s challenge to the lack of independence of the Independent Police Investigative Directorate; the striking from the roll of advocates of two of Zuma’s handpicked National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) leaders; the standing committee on public accounts’ (Scopa’s) excoriation of the head of the Hawks; successes of the public protector in her investigations of maladministration; and even the turning of the electoral tide, starts with a resolution taken in Decemb...
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