Zuma a step closer to dreaded day in court
Subpoenas, the latest salvo from the state capture commission, have cut close to the bone
The Zuma-Zondo imbroglio is like the last hour of Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now.Actually, the past 370 years in SA are like a crazy director’s cut of the whole film, right down to its harshly beautiful landscapes and gun-happy, napalm-breathing colonels making war on the inhabitants to the sound of Wagner.The story, like SA’s, is marinated in pain and suffering, but it is in the last hour that things really get unhinged, when Martin Sheen finally makes it upriver on his mission to dispatch the renegade Colonel Kurtz.Jacob Zuma’s attempt to have deputy chief justice Raymond Zondo recused from the state capture commission of inquiry is the former president’s last, desperate throw of the dice. Anything to ward off the day he must appear before the commission — now set for November 16 (though, given past experience, don’t hold your breath). This week’s salvo from the commission is the subpoenas that have been issued to banks for records pertaining to about 20 accounts linked to ...
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