From the look of things, another long, tortuous trek looms in South Africa. The ‘long trek’ has been primed by what many expected would be a honey-coated story but which has now left a bitter taste in the mouth of South Africans!
President Jacob Zuma
“Behind every great fortune there is a crime” - Balzac
As South Africa digests the news of Standard&Poor’s April 3 downgrade of state debt to junk status following Jacob Zuma’s March 30 cabinet reshuffle, two other credit rating agen
12 – 15 December 2016, Cape Town
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November 16, 2016 was to be yet another turning point in Jacob Zuma’s presidency. He had initiated proceedings along with two of his ministers, Des van Rooyen and Mosebenzi Zwane, to have the ex-Public Protector Thuli Madonsela’s report on state capture stopped from public disclosure.
The word in Twi that comes closest to defining “hubris” for me is tirimudƐ.
For the benefit of readers who do not speak Twi, the word literally means “to entertain sweetness inside one's own head”!
The term ‘pogrom’ seems to be a befitting epithet to describe the wanton killings and verbal vendettas that characterized the campaign rallies preceding the August 3 local government elections in the rainbow nation of South Africa.
I do not usually give much credence to government officials’ whitewashing, excuses or blame games.
Dear Mr. Jacob G. Zuma,
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