TONY LEON: Infamy, larceny, plunder and finally, disgrace for Jacob Zuma
'He bankrupted the Treasury, he sullied our international reputation, he metastasised corruption across the entire body politic'
Watching the upside-down world of the presidential drama in South Africa from Down Under – nine hours ahead in Melbourne, Australia - provides some perspective. Actually, most of the psychodrama the world is witnessing as Jacob Zuma clings on with cuticle-wrenching intensity to the windowsill at Union Buildings reminds the reader or viewer of the famous OJ Simpson car chase.Some will recall the actual event on June 17 1994 when the infamous football star and his driver led the Los Angeles Police Division on a two-hour, 110km, slow-motion car chase across the highways and byways of Southern California. Others will more recently have watched the outstanding TV drama The People Versus OJ Simpson. And the similarity between OJ Simpson’s attempt to flee justice and Jacob Zuma is very stark. Every viewer knew how it would all end eventually, although in Simpson’s case he was acquitted by the jury in a controversial case in which he was accused of murdering his wife and her friend. But h...
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