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Bruce’s List: A guide to informed reads. You don’t even have to be a fly on the walls of President Jacob Zuma’s office to know what’s going on. The events of the recent ANC national executive committee (NEC) meeting, where Zuma — who counts himself as a pretty savvy intelligence man — was ambushed by his critics, including cabinet ministers, calling for his removal from office, will have profoundly shaken him. His conversation will be boiling still around whether to fire the ministers who stood up to him or to keep them in their jobs. A man like Zuma, in constant, indeed chronic, survival mode can know no rest. Either decision will do him harm. My gut feeling is that he will move against them, though perhaps not all. When, I have no idea, but December and holiday time, as we all know, are useful for political games. But, then again, I’m often wrong.Zuma has only the faintest idea of the damage removing Pravin Gordhan as finance minister could do. He is shielded from the real world. ...
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