THICK END OF THE WEDGE
PETER BRUCE: So, Zuma’s going won’t help? Don’t you believe it!
When Jacob Zuma goes what really gets saved is the ANC but, sadly for the ANC, it hasn’t figured that out yet
I AM going to scream the next time I read some analyst, commentator or politician tell me that getting rid of President Jacob Zuma, or him miraculously agreeing to go, would not solve all our problems.Duh! I already know that. But it would still be the perfect start to our national recovery. With Zuma gone, a whole lot of things in SA would begin to go right almost immediately.When Zuma goes, so, contract or no contract, does "General" Berning Ntlemeza, the head of the Hawks, the so-called priority crimes unit of the South African Police. That means the phoney war on corruption would stop and a real one could begin.When Zuma goes, the poodle who appointed Ntlemeza (officially on Thursday, a year late), Police Minister Nathi Nhleko, would go too. No more idiocy on the police front. No insisting, even after Zuma had admitted the opposite, that the Nkandla swimming pool was there for fire emergencies.When Zuma goes, so will Tom Moyane, the guy destroying the South African Revenue Servi...
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