“I’ll make it fit,” I imagine Zuma saying to himself with the steely determination of someone trying to squeeze themself into small jeans.
Jacob Zuma has a “no-strings-attached” relationship with the law. He reminds me of a tall, dark bartender you meet while you’re backpacking through South-East Asia on a gap year, full of passion and intensity but not looking for anything serious. There could be something quite romantic about the character. I can see Regé-Jean Page playing him in an Eat, Pray, Love-style coming-of-age Netflix original. Only we’re not talking about the cast of a made-for-TV movie.
First there was the “rescission” application he brought to try and get the Constitutional Court to backtrack on its finding that he was in contempt for refusing to take the stand at the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture de- spite having been ordered to, and giving him 15 months behind bars. But the former president continued undeterred to try and bend the law to his liking last week, when his section 106 special plea was finally heard in the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Pietermaritzburg.
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