Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean Zuma’s not after you
PETER BRUCE: Zuma’s real threat to you
He has to clear all obstacles to his wealth and power out of the way. It’s not going to be pretty
If you’re feeling a bit brittle don’t beat yourself up. It’s a brittle circumstance we’re in. A coup is in the air. It was a bit rude of me (and I apologise) when in my column yesterday I asked if the anonymous writer Lily Gosam might not be mad. She had written an extremely long analysis of local political events since last spring and concluded that not only is the current welfare grants payments crisis manufactured but that President Jacob Zuma intends, for his own nefarious political benefit, to ensure that no grants are paid out at all on April 1. Lily Gosam, ever since her introduction into the South African public discourse in, I think, 2015 by Rand Daily Mail editor Ray Hartley, has been sensational and worth every minute of time I’ve taken to read her. Or him.But I’m pretty sure the grants will be paid on April 1, which would render her theory of Zuma causing the social crisis, and then going on to conduct a sort of constitutional coup during the resultant chaos, moot. The q...
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