JOHN STEENHUISEN: Zuma’s strategy flows directly from ANC tactics
Delay, obfuscate and rewrite history to buy time or even be exonerated
Former president Jacob Zuma’s latest attempt to frustrate the work of the Zondo commission on state capture and evade justice is not a strategy unique to him. It is a pattern that has repeated itself in the ANC over the years, where an action or institution that is lauded with much fanfare at its introduction is eventually turned on and dismissed as soon as it gets uncomfortably close to the criminal activities of high-ranking ANC members.
Zuma himself appointed the state capture commission two and a half years ago, and he is on record stating his willingness to co-operate with it. His latest claim that judge Raymond Zondo is somehow biased due to a personal history with him must be dismissed with contempt. Not only did Zuma appoint Zondo to chair the commission, he also recommended him for the position of deputy chief justice a year earlier...
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