EDITORIAL: Zuma on his way to becoming yesterday’s man
Whether the ANC can manage the election of its leaders this time will be of historic significance
It all seems very undignified and unbecoming for a president. But Zuma has no regard for how he appears to the outside world. He is in fight-back mode and is mobilising his base, which is best done by playing the victim as well as the hero, in the fight against white and foreign forces who want to oppress and steal from black people and keep them poor. Disturbingly, it has echoes of Robert Mugabe. But as his position grows more desperate, we can expect the populist rhetoric to get louder. But so too is the noise of the opposition against him. Shortly before Zuma rose in Parliament on Wednesday to denounce the banks for closing the Guptas’s bank accounts, Sipho Pityana, the convener of Save SA, was incredulously repeating Zuma’s comments about witches and asking: "What kind of leader is this?" Save SA has launched a "people’s motion" for his removal and will hold a silent protest each time he speaks. The EFF has decided not to recognise him; and the DA and Freedom Under Law are litig...
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