EDITORIAL: Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma strays off script
Her toned-down off-script speech was for a business audience. So which one is the real Dlamini-Zuma?
Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma’s maiden speech to the business community, at the Gordon Institute of Business Science on Tuesday morning, was a mystifying affair. It was the first time Dlamini-Zuma had provided a comprehensive exposition of her views on the economy, the role of business and what needs to change. She was accompanied, as she often is, by disgraced former ANC spokesman Carl Niehaus, who is a stalwart of her campaign. Thankfully, this time he swopped his camouflage military wear for an ordinary business suit. Niehaus’s outfit wasn’t the only change. The speech, presumably drafted by her team, was also substantially altered in the delivery. The thrust of it was that while the ownership of economy needed to be transformed to allow in new entrants, especially black Africans, this was an endeavour in which business and the government had to work together. She spoke earnestly about skills and education being the key to SA’s success and fighting poverty. Her list of priorities were e...
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