THICK END OF THE WEDGE
PETER BRUCE: Ramaphosa is courting trouble with Gigaba
There’s an accident waiting to happen to President Cyril Ramaphosa, and if he doesn’t do something about it soon, he’s going to look either politically weak or morally indifferent. Or both. The accident is called Malusi Gigaba, inexplicably retained in the Cabinet by Ramaphosa despite my explicit advice that he be dropped, if only for re-education and possible rehabilitation, a bit like those child soldiers you see in separatist armies around Africa. What becomes of them? This child might have been, I suggested, groomed and recruited by the Zuma-Gupta state-capture conspiracy before his mind was fully formed. Should we not show him some mercy? As it turns out, no. Our Malusi was a full and happy recruit. Maybe not at first, but at some stage he knew it all and stuck with it. We know he started the formal part of state capture with a cull of the board of big state-owned companies at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday June 8 2011. I still believe that was via instruction from above.How wo...
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