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SIMON LINCOLN READER: Jacob Zuma’s pantomime of victimhood needs no pity party
Zuma knows what’s coming to him, and he also knows the Stalingrad strategy of frustrating the hell out of the courts with delays and appeals won’t work alone: he needs waves of public sympathy
There was the natural question of authenticity the day it was revealed that Duduzane Zuma had launched a defence of his father on Twitter. There are other social media profiles attributed to the former president’s son, but these are clearly bogus. If you read what he writes and listen to the interview in Dubai with Milton Nkosi of the BBC, you’ll find consistency. Duduzane promotes the idea of his father being an innocent, selfless leader persecuted by a system that is "anti-black". He reposts glorious nonsense from Black First Land First; in 2017 he attacked Pravin Gordhan in an open letter but whatever its objective, it failed. What he wants is the type of sympathy for his father many blacks have accused white people of lacking in the wake of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s death. The apple hasn’t fallen far from the tree. Duduzane’s father is a professional victim, as revealed last week in a church, when congregants were encouraged to pray "for the softening of hearts". Jacob Zuma kn...
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