POLITICAL WEEK AHEAD: Spy agency poised to act on Zuma book
The State Security Agency (SSA) gives Jacques Pauw and his publisher until Wednesday to remove copies from book shops and retract parts of it
The row over Jacques Pauw’s book The President’s Keepers is set to escalate this week, with the State Security Agency (SSA) giving Pauw and his publisher until Wednesday to remove copies from book shops and retract parts of it. It remains to be seen what the South African Revenue Service will do after aspects of the president’s tax affairs were exposed in the book. Investigative journalist Pauw’s book has led the intelligence agency to serve its first cease-and-desist letter in democratic SA on an author or a publisher. However, the publisher and Pauw remain adamant that the book will remain in book shops and that more copies of it will be printed. The ANC will convene a special meeting of its national executive committee this weekend, in which Zuma’s backers will seek to have the outcome of the Eastern Cape’s elective conference nullified. Oscar Mabuyane and his supporters, who back Cyril Ramaphosa, took over from Zuma ally Phumulo Masualle in the October elections. In Parliament, ...
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