Former president Jacob Zuma remains a wily politician. His recent utterances about the law being too easy on criminals appear to be accurate, given the number of corrupt politicians still enjoying impunity. But the irony is that he himself is benefiting from the situation. He knows this full well, so why state the obvious?
Zuma is either out of touch with reality, or he went public with a specific reason in mind: to plead insanity. How clever is that? Given his record, his speech would elicit cries from the citizenry that such remarks could only have come from a madman...
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