Curiouser and curiouser!” cried Alice…. – From Alice in Wonderland.
You’ve got to love this country. Who needs The Bold and the Beautiful or Generations when you have the Zuma-saga to provide drama, mystery and intrigue? Now we are told (but can we believe this?) that Mr Zuma’s lawyers handed evidence – recordings of tapped [...]
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Curiouser and curiouser in Wonderland
Fact: Zuma has a case to answer
No matter what decision the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) takes regarding the prosecution of Mr Jacob Zuma, one incontrovertible fact remains: Mr Zuma does have a criminal case to answer. Another incontrovertible fact is that the arms deal has become a poisoned chalice for the ANC and has forever tarnished its reputation and destroyed our [...]
Give Zuma a chance?
Xolela Mangcu has an interesting column in today’s Business Day on Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma, in which he argues that we should give Jacob Zuma a chance as President. (What would we do without the editorial pages of Business Day? Hopefully the rumours about its immenent demise are premature.)
As Mangcu points out:
Over the past [...]
Questions for Chikane, Mbandla, Gumbi, Simelane, Mpshe and Mbeki
Sometimes the truth seems so blindingly obvious that one is tempted to believe that even our politicians would not be able to twist the facts to justify the indefensible – only to be reminded that politicians lie for a living and that the ordinary voter is often too lazy or stupid to care.
But let us consider [...]
On “deliberate falsehoods” and conspiracies
Why is it that South Africans so love conspiracies and are so quick to believe in them? Your paper not delivered this morning? Must be a conspiracy involving various journalists, the tooth fairy and maybe Father Christmas (or Santa Clause as they call the ugly fat guy with the cotton wool beard here in the USA). [...]
SCA provides common sense interpretation of section 179
It is always nice when one is proven to be correct. After the Nicholson judgement, some readers of this Blog issued rather cataclysmic condemations of myself and others and suggested that we were stupid and uninformed for having predicted that section 179 of the Constitution (read with the relevant sections of the NPA Act) did not [...]
Mugabe, Mbeki, murder
In the letter written by ex President Thabo Mbeki to the ANC after he was fired as President he listed Robert Mugabe – who pretends to be the legitimate President of Zimbabwe – as one of the heroes he has had the honour to interact with. Can one tell the quality of a person by [...]
Should Pikoli be re-instated pronto?
If a news report in today’s Mail & Guardian is correct, Vusi Pikoli should immediately be re-instated as National Director of Public Prosecutions. According to the Mail & Guardian the confidential report of the Ginwala commission clears former president Thabo Mbeki of an abuse of executive power, while at the same time exonerating Pikoli. Apparently [...]
Don’t hold your breath for an arms deal commission of inquiry
A joint letter signed by Nobel Peace laureates Desmond Tutu and FW de Klerk has been delivered to President Kgalema Motlanthe’s office on 2 December 2008, urgently requesting that he institutes an independent and public judicial commission of inquiry into the arms deal. The letter argues that:
the widest possible investigation into impropriety and corruption is [...]
