Like a reanimated corpse bursting from a crypt in a cheesy late-night horror movie, South Africa’s wildly corrupt former president and current MK party leader, Jacob Zuma, has returned.
Like a reanimated corpse bursting from a crypt in a cheesy late-night horror movie, South Africa’s wildly corrupt former president, Jacob Zuma, has returned.
Jacob Zuma and his daughter Duduzile in Nkandla on 4 July 2021, just days before Zuma was taken into custody. Amid all the lawfare, and the inevitable internal squabbling within MK itself, the party eventually published a manifesto. What emerged from the turgid prose was an ethno-nationalist mélange of feudalism, socialism and hardcore paternalism — as 21st-century a phenomenon as iPhones or HD TV. It’s laughable to think that anyone would fall for this dreck, but resentment and rage are so prevalent in KZN that MK built momentum quickly.
Sadly, RET works in opposition to the law of the land. As its mascot and its sculptor, Zuma thus became the focus of the ire directed against RET’s vastly destabilising project. Which is why we now encounter another sad trope of the 21st century: the president as Everyman Schlub. As Loser-in-Chief. As His Excellency Homer Simpson.
Again, this circular logic — this hijacking of victimhood from the genuinely oppressed — is hardly a South African phenomenon. Nigel Farage, the toothy far-right British Brexiteer, has returned from Podcastlandia to “save” the UK from … the austere and chimerical benefits of Brexit. Trump, raised by scumbag hyper-capitalists to become a scumbag hyper-capitalist, campaigns on … saving the US from the austere and chimerical benefits of scumbag hyper-capitalism.
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