BETWEEN THE CHAINS
SIKONATHI MANTSHANTSHA: Set a thug to catch a thug
Whoever takes on Zuma can win only by throwing the rule book in Zuma’s face and deploying the president’s Machiavellian tactics
As a democratic nation we have arrived at a place we’ve never been before. We have jumped off the credit downgrade cliff. Having stuck like a disciplined army to the orthodox route towards national prosperity for 20 years, we have now thrown caution to the wind. In so doing we have thrown away our highly prized investment-grade status. Led by the former revolutionaries at the head of the state, we have shown middle fingers to ourselves and our friends outside. They who have held our collective hand and marched alongside us on our long, slow and difficult road towards prosperity. Annually these investors have shown faith in us by lending us approximately R500bn. They lent it to us so we could slowly but surely join the developed and progressive family of nations. But we have cut off our own nose to spite our face. We have allowed one man, Jacob Zuma, to get away with far too much. Or should we say, one small group of men. They are now emboldened and are bulldozing their way to one la...
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