POLITICAL DEJA VU
XOLISA PHILLIP: It is 2007, Mbeki is in charge and Zuma is SA’s new saviour
‘Vintage Mbeki — rewarding loyalists while dealing swiftly and ruthlessly with opponents’
It is August 2007, four months before the winds of change will sweep through the tripartite alliance in Polokwane, where the ANC is preparing to usher in a "glorious" new, pro-poor era and to dump the neoliberal agenda for good. A man of the people, a son of the soil and the antithesis of Thabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma, is leading the charge from the ground up. Zuma is affable, approachable and accessible, but he has been the victim of a political conspiracy concocted in the highest office in the land that is being effected through the country’s security apparatus and courts. Despite facing these seemingly insurmountable odds, Zuma fights on from the outside for his political survival — with great force, like an unstoppable tsunami.Alliance partners Cosatu and the South African Communist Party (SACP) have long dismissed Mbeki as "aloof", accusing him of being antipoor and of pushing a neoliberal policy stance, to the detriment of the millions of citizens who are scraping the bottom of the ...
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