At the ANC’s 53rd national conference in December 2012, Jacob Zuma was re-elected president of the ruling party. Most of the 4,075 delegates voted for the slate put forward by the KwaZulu-Natal wing of the party. After Kgalema Motlanthe, then deputy president of SA, broke with the man he had supported in 2007, Zuma chose Cyril Ramaphosa as ANC deputy president and pledged to implement the National Development Plan, which the new number two had championed. What followed was a studied neglect of the plan and a series of ever-more serious scandals, few of them having been resolved up to now. Dodgy deals Zuma cultivated scores of business people, who receive lucrative contracts from state-owned enterprises (SOEs), and then pass money on to Zuma or his affiliates. This tendency began with his relationship to Schabir Shaik, who paid a discounted price for his corrupt relation to Zuma, who managed to avert his famous day in court, which has not yet come. Zuma has been associated with other...
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