The problem with Zuma (James Myburgh)

[NameOfBeast]

James Myburgh at politicsweb writes:

One of my earliest memories of Jacob Zuma - and for a long time, the defining one - was his 1999 defence in parliament of the ANC's policy of cadre deployment. At its national conference in December 1997 the ruling party had adopted a resolution on cadre policy. And in 1998 the ANC set about implementing a programme of bringing all ‘levers of power' under its control through of placing loyalists in all key positions across the state.

Yet, for all the determination, realism and sense of purpose that seems to characterise the current government, it is difficult to see how the Zuma government's ambitions will not end up running into the sand. For, like the Bourbons, they have ‘remembered everything, but learnt nothing.'
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Sooner or later many of these appointments are going to turn bad. It is not just that some of these individuals are so crooked that - as Hunter S. Thompson said of Nixon - they need servants just to help them screw on their pants in the morning. But, equally disturbingly, Zuma is replicating the very same structure that bred the corruption and abuse of state power that characterised the previous administration.

http://www.politicsweb.co.za/politicsweb/view/politicsweb/en/page71619?oid=146332&sn=Detail

 

[Drake2007]

Instead of putting some distance between himself and the ‘levers of power' Zuma has gone ahead and stuffed the justice and security organs with some rather spooky loyalists. His allies in the dirty war with the Mbeki-ites, and then against the National Prosecuting Authority post-Polokwane, have been protected and/or elevated to high office.

Good article, lets hope Zuma catches a wake-up

 

[Slooth]

I don't forsee this changing in the furture. All presidents are going to require support from within the ranks of the ANC. Promises are made and support rewarded, this is the nature of politics.