JUSTICE MALALA: Shaun made a meal of it
Much disappointment has been served up over the past 10 years of trying to put Jacob Zuma on trial, but the final course should be sweet
I leant over to the French couple at the next table. No, reader, I don’t always do that sort of thing but these were special circumstances. I needed to know. For research purposes. They had polished off their meal. She then moved and joined him on his side of the table, looking out to sea and at the boat lights flickering in the harbour. They had murmured their dessert order to the waitress and then sat cuddling, enjoying the views. Their dessert arrived; crème brûlée. It looked very good — crusty and brown on top, and leaving you wondering about, and hankering for, the inside. "How was the crème brûlée?" I asked. "It was wonderful," the woman replied. "The crust was a bit cold when it should be hot, but wonderful, smooth." "We got our just deserts," smiled her partner. That got me thinking about another man who is finally getting his just deserts — our former president, Jacob Zuma. Last week the country’s uber-spineless man, Shaun Abrahams, finally announced that Zuma’s ancient cor...
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