EDITOR’S LUNCHBOX: Jacob Zuma looks like he won’t be having a happy new year
Stories of Note Bytes from the digital world Bloomberg’s billionaire index showed the rich generally got richer in 2017. An exception was Christo Wiese, who lost more wealth than the GDP of at least 13 African countries following Steinhoff’s crash. Senior ANC leaders are engaged in urgent, secret talks to negotiate an exit for President Jacob Zuma, possibly as early as January. Surprisingly, the talks are being driven by close allies of the president who are trying to negotiate a way for Zuma to leave office without him being embarrassed. In My Opinion Matters of debate If President Jacob Zuma is pressured to resign, it may be the ANC’s dodgy deputy president David Mabuza rather than Cyril Ramaphosa who becomes caretaker president, the Citizen’s former editor and now DA councilor Martin Williams warns. "A few nights ago, I watched the ANC’s new leader, Cyril Ramaphosa, promise us that his party will be more responsive and more accountable to us, and that it will reach out to communi...
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