JUSTICE MALALA: Jacob Zuma, like apartheid, has perverted our institutions
Once there were the Scorpions, a respected crime-fighting unit. The people had faith in them. The corrupt feared them. Jacob Zuma quaked when he thought of them. What is left of the South Africa of our dreams? Ask the thief-in-chief What do we have left now? Once there were the Scorpions, a respected crime-fighting unit. The people had faith in them. The corrupt feared them. Jacob Zuma quaked when he thought of them. Then in 2007 he took the reins of the ANC and within months the Scorpions had been destroyed by his faithful lapdogs, Maggie Sotyu and Yunus Carrim. Now we have the Hawks. This is the unit that charges Pravin Gordhan. This is the unit that cannot muster a decent case against criminals. This is the unit that now works to persecute — note my words, "persecute", not "prosecute" — those who utter a word against Zuma.Berning Ntlemeza, the apartheid cop, now insists that he is the Hawks' master and commander, despite numerous court rulings that he is not worthy to be a filing...
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