The DA: will Zuma ride to the rescue?
PETER BRUCE: Will Zuma rescue the DA with a reckless reshuffle?
The president could rejuvenate the opposition with a reckless cabinet reshuffle
It appears that President Jacob Zuma might be riding to the rescue of the DA. The breaking news as I write is that finance minister Pravin Gordhan and his deputy, Mcebisi Jonas, have been ordered to return immediately to SA from a roadshow they were making to investors in Europe and the US. The immediate assumption is that a cabinet reshuffle is now under way. Even if that is the case, it has at least been a pleasure reading my friend and former DA leader Tony Leon’s writing, in his numerous columns, as he covers the crisis inside his old party that has been stirred up by Helen Zille’s tweets about the good parts of colonialism, and does his best not to mention Zille. In The Times last week he wrote about the loneliness of being a party leader. “But a political leader is the custodian of the brand of his or her party. He has to keep his party united and protect its brand at all costs. If the reputation of the party is harmed from within, he has to act swiftly to put it to rights. No...
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