President Jacob Zuma has not been captured by the Gupta family - or any other entity. He does not take instructions from them. He does not do their bidding.Instead, judging from his dysfunctional cabinet and its actions this week, he is a man who is deeply, deathly afraid. He is like a person who is being blackmailed. Afraid of exposure and destruction, he not only does what the blackmailer instructs but allows the blackmailer to get away with murder with acts against those around him.So, Zuma is not captured. The reality is far worse. The events of last Friday indicate that there is a coterie of ministers and ANC officials who no longer take direction or instruction from Zuma. The hapless Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane issued a market-moving statement purporting to be from the cabinet announcing a judicial inquiry into banks and the restructuring of the Reserve Bank's responsibilities to issue banking licences.They seem to take their orders straight from the Gupta famil...
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