JUSTICE MALALA: Rotten land deal shows what Zuma means by 'radical economic transformation'
'It was as if we were watching Die Groot Krokodil back in 1985, unable and unwilling to cross his own Rubicon'
IT MIGHT be hard to believe but there is a silver lining to the shameful scenes at last week's State of the Nation speech. It is this: the days of the presidency of the empty suit that is Jacob Zuma are numbered. The country has turned against him. He has turned against the country. He has now entered his final march to Nkandla. Zuma walked into the House on Thursday having already turned popular sentiment against his presidency. Thousands of police were deployed in the people's parliament. Soldiers in full uniform walked up and down the red carpet after he asked for a doubling of defence force personnel for no apparent reason. Zuma himself, paranoid and afraid of his own people, was surrounded by a phalanx of bodyguards. It was as if we were watching Die Groot Krokodil back in 1985, unable and unwilling to cross his own Rubicon. Zuma faced a country that is crying out for economic growth and jobs. These are two areas in which he has failed dismally since he took over in 2009. Inste...
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