JUSTICE MALALA: A nightmare Christmas looms
The idea of sharing a turkey with Jacob Zuma and his cronies is too ghastly to contemplate. But a trip to a Craighall restaurant was delightful
Most Financial Mail readers are tucking into this column with a piña colada in the hand, lying on a beach somewhere, wondering whether they should book a Thai massage at sunset before a sumptuous dinner. Well, dear reader, spare a thought for me and the rest of the political journo pack. Piña colada? No. Christmas with the family? Perhaps not. As you read this I am ploughing through the ANC’s economic policy document, trying to make sense of "radical economic transformation" as espoused, paid for and popularised by the Guptas. But that’s probably not the reason I will be at Nasrec on Christmas Eve. Given the plethora of court interdicts and challenges to the standing of many of the delegates to the ANC national conference, who is to say that it will actually go on? Or how long it will last.My greatest fear as I write this column is not that the ANC delegates will choose to extend the Zuma nightmare years through his proxies (can you imagine minerals minister Mosebenzi Zwane, one of ...
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