As he pretends to be running for the chair of the ANC, our former president waxes Trumpian as he laments the ANC’s being ‘consumed by a patronage network characterised by corrupt hands exchanging money’.
I’m still reeling from the shock of Jacob Zuma’s speech last week, in which he made a courageous stand for accountability and honesty in the ANC. It was like seeing Donald Trump express some compassion for another human being, or admit he’d ever done anything wrong in his life. That’s how shocked I was.
As chairperson, Zuma will guide the ANC towards a newer and brighter future, in which it is able to form an actual government, ministers who can do their jobs, a Parliament of honest souls, even SOEs that don’t drain the public purse… But now I’m fantasising. Not that Zuma’s likely to commit himself to going for a run. He is, after all, suffering from a mystery illness, one that is in all likelihood terminal – unless it’s terminal dishonesty that’s killing him. There are suspicions, after all, that this mystery ailment is all in his head, just like his great service to the people of South Africa is all in his head.
Obviously, this whole manoeuvre of giving such a speech has nothing to do with the values or views expressed and more to do with his bid for the ANC chairpersonship, or his pretended bid for the chairpersonship, or his pretended bid to be seen as pretending to aim for the ANC chairmanship. He’s just doing what he has done since he left office, which is to make as much trouble as possible for the present leadership.
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