THICK END OF THE WEDGE
PETER BRUCE: Maimane, enters stage right … er, psst, Mmusi?
SO, AT the time of writing — Thursday afternoon — there’s a list dropping onto the cellphones of well-connected people (I’m not well-connected, I just know someone who is), purporting to be the draft of a Cabinet reshuffle President Jacob Zuma is planning to announce soon.Hell, by the time you read this, it may even have happened. If Mosebenzi Zwane, the minister of mineral resources and banking regulation, gets a really shitty job such as sanitation, you’ll know the list was fairly accurate.The list itself isn’t important and, frankly, neither will the reshuffle be if and when it happens. Zwane can hand out sewer tenders just as easily as mining licences. Zuma’s ship is sinking and he’s rearranging the deck chairs in the hope the people closest to him drown last.But to rehearse the finale, Act 3, the director is in a quandary. How does the Zuma morality tale end? Does he make his leading man go for broke, making his ex-wife the new president, thereby ensuring he doesn’t go to jail,...
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