President Jacob Zuma’s days are numbered — so the sooner he understands the dynamics the better. He was booed in Bloemfontein — one of the "Premier League" strongholds — when such humiliation is associated with "clever blacks" in Gauteng. The tripartite alliance is falling apart. The South African Communist Party’s second deputy general secretary Solly Mapaila’s suggestion that the role of each partner in the alliance should be discussed spells trouble. And Blade Nzimande says that he doesn’t want to be remembered as someone who let the alliance fall apart. South Africans were patient and afforded the ANC the opportunity to self-correct from its weaknesses — until it mistook us for fools who are its blind loyalists. The Gauteng urbanites who were labelled "clever blacks" by the morally compromised president taught the ANC a lesson in 2016’s local government elections. But instead of humbling himself, Zuma reshuffled his Cabinet and labelled the protests demanding his exit a "white" ...
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