THICK END OF THE WEDGE
PETER BRUCE: All the president’s women are a letdown
"Zuma just doesn’t have a successor candidate, female or otherwise, who he can rely on"
The computer implant in President Jacob Zuma’s brain may suddenly have come across a most unusual problem. The implant does all the president’s political calculating. It can work at incredibly high speeds and has an immense memory, which can be accessed instantly and under all conditions, no matter how stressful. Under normal conditions, it can calculate a solution to any problem the presidential brain faces. The implant has taken a poor boy from nowhere to, last week for instance, the Group of 20 summit, where he held hands with the leader of the free world, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, shook hands with US President Donald Trump and gave an extra special hug to his most solid political ally, Vladimir Putin, the Russian leader.The implant’s calculation was straightforward. She is the mother of four of his children and she would be unlikely to allow him to be prosecuted for any of the far distant or more recent frauds for which prima facie evidence may or may not exist. But as th...
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