Bruce's List
PETER BRUCE: Zuma brings out the worst in SA
Thanks for the mess JZ...
Bruce’s List: A guide to informed reads. Jan Smuts apparently used to say that SA was a country in which neither the best nor the worst ever happened. He might have said that a hundred years ago but the fact is it still applies, even though some really good and some really bad stuff still happens. Why for instance, would the head of the National Prosecuting Authority, Shaun Abrahams, attend a meeting with the president a day before charging finance minister Pravin Gordhan with fraud, inside the ANC’s party headquarters in Johannesburg? Has he no judgment at all? No-one in their right mind thinks Abrahams comes even close to being the nonpartisan official the constitution enjoins him to be but it is still shocking when stuff like this happens. And then the lies about what was discussed. It was the student protests, he says, but then why was the minister of higher education not at the meeting? Or the minister of police? Obviously, they are both useless at their jobs and would not have...
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