JUSTICE MALALA: Zuma the Unready
Things tend to go awry when you aren’t properly prepared for the task at hand. Ask Jacob Zuma’s government. Or a certain restaurant in Sandton
The president of KwaZulu Natal, Jacob Zuma, was back on his home turf on Sunday after frequent holidays to Pretoria, from where he pretends to run the rest of SA. This time he was in Nquthu and, as usual, he saw a microphone and spoke into it. No one boos him in KwaZulu Natal, you see, unlike the rest of SA. Zuma must have been relieved to be on home ground. After all, his handler, "President" Atul Gupta, is a hard taskmaster and demands hard work.It’s a bit like opening a restaurant before you are quite on top of things. The newish Wishbone restaurant can weigh in on this matter quite authoritatively, I think. It, too, was not ready when it opened its doors — and it showed when I went there. This place, smack bang in the middle of corporate SA in Sandton, is an example of what happens when you rush into things. When my mate Winston Skosana and I descended from his lofty office to this nicely appointed place, we were hungry. We sat down and were ignored for a while. Finally, our wai...
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