PETER BRUCE: Zim and Zuma in a quandary as Bob hangs on
Zuma finds himself up to his neck in the same dynastic politics that Mugabe has impaled himself on
It’s hard to decide which is the more hilarious – former Eskom boss Brian Molefe joining the army or Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe yanking everyone’s chain by refusing (or did he simply forget) to resign in a TV broadcast to the nation last night? It probably has to be Mugabe. We don’t have much more time with him. Molefe will be around for years. So after a dramatic week in which the Zimbabwean army has placed Mugabe and his wife under house arrest, beat up members of his cabinet, encouraged, if not organised, a huge public demonstration of opposition to Mugabe and in which his own party ordered him to resign and expel said wife, what does the old vampire do? Basically, he says “f*#k off” to the generals and party bigwigs who want him out. He may be 93 and a heartless abuser of his own citizens, but Mugabe’s still got cojones. By refusing to resign, or announce that he would resign, last night, and by alluding to his possible presence at the head of a special Zanu-PF congress ...
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