JACQUES PAUW: It's time Ramaphosa fired Zuma's keepers
'Ramaphosa has learnt a hard lesson with Malusi Gigaba by affording him a second chance. Don't shift them, get rid of them'
They are hooked like listeria microbes to the intestines of our law enforcement agencies: the former president's keepers that have kept him in power and out of prison for a decade. This is going to be one of President Cyril Ramaphosa's main challenges: to unhook their noxious teeth and extract them in one major procedure from the rotten carcass on which they have feasted. If he fails to do so, these agencies - the South African Revenue Service, the Hawks, police crime intelligence, the NPA and the State Security Agency - will remain diseased, impotent and unstable. They will fail to bring the state capturers to book, the former president and his cronies will walk free, the revenue service's R50-billion shortfall will grow, organised criminals will continue to reign supreme without fear of prosecution, and Ramaphosa will have to watch his back as a political listeriosis attack might be imminent. Zuma appointed them to top positions in law enforcement - not because of their ability to...
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