THICK END OF THE WEDGE
PETER BRUCE: Spare us the fussing over Zuma’s ejection
The hand-wringing accompanying the seemingly slow, but in reality relatively swift, defenestration of President Jacob Zuma is getting on my nerves. It is clear as a bell that, for the moment, new ANC president and putative head of state Cyril Ramaphosa is playing a blinder and could be leader of the country on Friday. He doesn’t, on Friday morning, have to have an entire plan laid out about how to clean a rotten administration. That needs professional investigation by independent and motivated police, prosecutors and intelligence officials, whom Ramaphosa will appoint when he can. Nor does he have to sort out a long string of people of who were party to state capture under Zuma but have yet to be proven beneficiaries. That too would involve a host of officials and senior politicians, including Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba and ANC deputy secretary-general Jessie Duarte. If you’ve ever had your family around you when a snake appears in your midst you’ll know how tense Ramaphosa has ...
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