BEWITCHED
Zuma’s zombie apocalypse
SA’s politics have been recast in the rhetoric of myth: Zuma as wise wizard; Zille as wicked witch of the Western Cape. The struggle for the soul of the nation has seemingly begun
Jacob Zuma, our president, trying to work out last week how it is that the ANC keeps losing the Western Cape, said: "It’s witchcraft‚ you never know. Maybe even ghosts are voting." It’s a right old conundrum, to be sure, but he got there in the end. Ghosts. Obviously. A regular Gandalf, is our commander in chief, in perpetual battle with the agents of darkness. And that is a good thing. Because something wicked this way comes. Or came. "It was as if we were bewitched," Zuma said in June, when he was trying to work out why factions keep breaking away from the ANC. That particular spell is proving hard to break. He lives in the republic of magic, does Zuma, a land of fantastical creatures — and he knows where to find them. "They are sent by a zombie." That’s Zuma again. Those people upset with the ANC’s performance are clearly not of this world. The darkness has them. But Zuma has endured. The force is strong with this one.What it means: Under pressure, Jacob Zuma and his acolytes ar...
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