9.48 ------ How Jacob Zuma and the Guptas have parted ways President Jacob Zuma's association with the Guptas has been much reported. There is no question that he and his family business interests were entangled in such a way that he was compromised. Two revelations demonstrated how deep this entanglement ran. The deputy minister of finance, Mcebisi Jonas, revealed that the Guptas had offered him the position of finance minister, an extraordinary breech of Zuma's responsibility to hire and fire ministers. And Themba Maseko revealed how he was removed from his position as government spokesman after he failed to humour the Guptas. The conventional wisdom is that Zuma is in the Gupta's pockets and he will always do their bidding. Except, he hasn't. Not recently anyway. We may have entered the post-Zupta era, one in which the Guptas no longer require the services of Zuma. His ability to install or remove ministers without the concurrence of Luthuli House has been severely curtailed foll...
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