THICK END OF THE WEDGE
PETER BRUCE: No marriage of ideas for Jacob and his ex
For Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, Jacob Zuma’s ex and his chosen candidate to succeed him, life is already a blur
Is President Jacob Zuma still talking to Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma? I know she’s his ex and his chosen candidate to succeed him as ANC leader in December, but can we just assume they communicate? I ask because Jacob, in a sham "interview" on the Gupta TV channel this week, denied vigorously that state capture even exists. It’s not a thing. In his defence, much of his interview was incoherent. He does not do well off the cuff in English. Second or third languages are hell. But the clear message I got was that not only was state capture a figment of someone’s imagination, but that he would soon create an inquiry into this thing that doesn’t exist and then the people who say it does exist will "regret it". Ah, there we go. A threat. The fact is, it is more likely that JZ’s angry as hell. He’s been cornered, caught with his pants down or his hand in the cookie jar or whatever, and it isn’t nice. And then there was Nkosazana just recently in this very newspaper, on the page opposite this on...
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