CHARMAIN NAIDOO: Jacob Zuma compares himself to Biko? Really?
'Looking down at the coffin, with its twin shackled fists carved into the wood, with the words One Azania, One Nation emblazoned across it, my frustration turned into a knot in my gut'
It would be a huge mistake, Kgalema Motlanthe told BBC World’s Hardtalk this week, to underestimate just how cunning and wily Jacob Zuma is. Those are my words, not his, though the sentiment of his quiet chastisement said that. I would add the words sly, scheming and devious.There’s a reason the President has survived for so long. He knows how to milk a situation and turn it to his advantage. Columnist Tom Eaton put it succinctly: “If Zuma is so stupid, how is it that he still has his job despite those 783 counts of corruption while you're one sick day away from getting called into HR?” This week sees the continuation of a legal battle that has lasted nine long years as the Supreme Court in Bloemfontein sits to determine whether those criminal charges should be reinstated. Zuma chose this time to cock a snook at us, at the world, using a manufactured term created by the now demeaned Gupta hired PR firm Bell Pottinger – whose ignominious fall from PR grace has been meteoric in revers...
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