JUSTICE MALALA: A last dance with Dudu
Long-time SAA chair finally gets the boot, but not before a final trip with Zuma — to an infamous Nigerian state for an odd unveiling of a JZ statue
You may have heard: two weeks ago President Jacob Zuma jumped onto a plane, hopped into Lusaka, then on to Kinshasa, and finally to the minor but supposedly fantastically corrupt Imo State in Nigeria, where civil servants haven’t been paid for months. The governor is notorious for his alleged corruption. Zuma smiled happily as the governor unveiled a huge US$1.5m statue of him smirking, named a street after him and gave him a merit award. Merit for what, you may ask. This was, after all, just a day after the appeal court here in SA had ordered that the president should stop dilly-dallying and stand trial on 783 counts of fraud, corruption and racketeering.Anyway, Zuma was accompanied by the chair of the bankrupt Jacob G Zuma Foundation, one Dudu Myeni. She was also the chair, at the time, of the bankrupt SA Airways (SAA). What she was doing in Nigeria with Zuma beats me. Anyway, five days later Zuma was forced to boot her out of the SAA mess she created. I hope he called her and tol...
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