TOM EATON: Zuma the educator has taught us we deserve better
For all the damage he has done‚ the president has also taught us about power and what it looks like when it curdles and about how fragile democracy is
On Sunday night‚ a South African billionaire fired Zuma. At least‚ that was the plan. But Elon Musk’s SpaceX launch of the Zuma military satellite was a failure. Zuma splashed down somewhere in the Atlantic and is now missing. Down in Johannesburg‚ an almost identical moment was playing itself out at the same time‚ as another South African billionaire was preparing to launch another Zuma into the icy cold of political deep space. Cyril Ramaphosa was holding a private meeting with Msholozi. The countdown‚ it seemed‚ had finally begun. Forty-eight hours later‚ however‚ Zuma had punched his own self-destruct button‚ announcing the commission of inquiry into state capture and spectacularly blowing up Ramaphosa’s plan‚ and now nobody knows where he is.
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