RANJENI MUNUSAMY: Zuma moves chess pieces, but what is the end game?
'Zuma seems to have no qualms about accelerating investor jitters about South Africa as he continues to move his chess pieces ahead of the ANC’s elective conference'
If there were any doubt that President Jacob Zuma is a danger to South Africa’s stability‚ his surprise cabinet reshuffle on Tuesday morning would put paid to that. A week before Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba’s Medium Term Budget Policy Statement‚ Zuma made another round of inexplicable changes to the executive.Gigaba has just been to the United States for International Monetary Fund and World Bank meetings where he tried to settle political uncertainty about South Africa ahead of the ANC’s December conference. The country is also due to be reviewed again by international credit ratings agencies next month after a round of downgrades after Zuma’s last reshuffle. But Zuma seems to have no qualms about accelerating investor jitters about South Africa as he continues to move his chess pieces ahead of the ANC’s elective conference. The reshuffle would possibly have made some sense had Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma‚ his preferred successor‚ been included into the Cabinet. But the only new face...
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