President Jacob Zuma and his brother, Michael — PICTURE: SANDILE NDLOVU Michael Zuma, Jacob Zuma’s younger brother, is an honest man. Go around the world and you will find few like him.He has told South Africa what presidential spin doctors are paid to hide — that our dodgy president is very worried about the prospect of going to jail.“We are afraid he could go back to jail,” honest Michael told the Sunday Times.It is said that poor Michael cried as he told how Zuma’s wives often approach him for advice, haunted by the imagination of their husband in a prison cell.You can imagine the storm in Michael’s head: What would I do with so many wives? What would they eat?Where would poor Michael get money to maintain so many rondavels in Nkandla?Michael said his brother has changed: “This is not the brother I know. The brother I have always known is the one that cracks jokes, a brother who loves women.”Michael is not hallucinating, Jackie Selebi ended up wearing the orange uniform in jail, ...
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