PETER BRUCE: Finally, the anti-Zuma camp moves
This felt different. There’ll be no apologising now
Ok, so the poo has, finally, thank heavens, hit the fan. In what must surely have been a co-ordinated weekend effort, four anti-Zuma/Dlamini-Zuma/Zupta leadership candidates deep and strong inside the ANC, drew their lines in the sand. The fact that it all happened in the Eastern Cape matters too. Deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa, housing minister Lindiwe Sisulu, ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe and former deputy finance minister Mcebisi Jonas all laid into the Zuma corruption machine at Chris Hani commemoration meetings, offering the country perhaps the first real glimpse of an actual fight for the ANC leadership in December. And though Ramaphosa and Mantashe had been forced to backtrack and support Zuma in the immediate wake of his last cabinet reshuffle, when he fired Pravin Gordhan as finance minister, this felt different. There’ll be no apologising now. It was too open and aggressive. Ramaphosa wants to see a judicial probe into state capture, just as former public protecto...
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