JUSTICE MALALA: Zuma is taking us down the Mugabe path faster than you think
'You, dear reader, will be waiting tables in Botswana very soon because your country’s economy will have collapsed'
Your leaders are making you poor. They have been doing so since 2009 and will keep going as long as they can while becoming richer themselves. The #GuptaEmails have confirmed that the scandal-prone Jacob Zuma administration is rotten and the rot stretches in all directions. Ayanda Dlodlo, the new Communications minister, whom some of us had always regarded as incorruptible, had her trip to Dubai paid for by the Gupta family. When she was appointed, even Julius Malema said the only person he respected in that reshuffle was Dlodlo. Now it emerges she too is implicated. At least she had the decency to confirm the trip and give her side of the story. But these are small mercies in a cesspool of corruption and denial.Your leaders are making you poor, fast. Indeed, at the rate that the Zuma administration is going, the cupboards will be bare when the man hightails it to Dubai in 2019. Mark my words: Zuma’s administration will have turned South Africa into another Zimbabwe by the time he l...
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