JUSTICE MALALA: How Zuma plans to stay in power after he is president
'Zuma's is a ruthless, bold, scheming, wily and desperate criminal mind'
While many of his fellow political prisoners turned to the rigours and pleasures of study on Robben Island, the young Jacob Zuma, serving 10 years, opted to learn chess. Many of his comrades and fellow prisoners left the cold, harsh island armed with degrees (Dikgang Moseneke, jailed for 10 years when he was a mere 15 years old, studied for his matric and two degrees while in prison at the same time as Zuma); our current president left with an ability to outfox, outmanoeuvre and outplay many of his contemporaries. He learnt to be sly and cunning and to think seven or eight moves ahead of the game.As I write, the national executive committee of the ANC is debating a motion of no confidence in Zuma brought by senior strategist Joel Netshitenzhe. Netshitenzhe is not a man to be trifled with. He is one of the ANC’s most strategic thinkers, a cornerstone of the Mandela and Mbeki administrations. In the past few years, Netshitenzhe will have thought deeply about the Zuma effect on South A...
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