Zuma home and dry after Treasury raid

PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma must be rubbing his hands with glee. He has perfected his strike at South Africa’s vulnerable heart, the Treasury, and got away with his plan to plunder it. He knows comments by Cyril Ramaphosa and others in the ANC are just hot air.

Ramaphosa and the rest are interested only in keeping their jobs on the gravy train. If that means continuing to brown-nose Zuma — and selling the country down the river — then so be it.

Any attempt at demanding his resignation by a vote of no confidence in parliament is just claptrap and will not succeed. Zuma has his man, Malusi Gigaba, as finance minister, and he knows that his appointee will do exactly as he tells him. He is, in fact, home and dry. — DL Cox, by e-mail IN its January 8 statement, the ANC declared 2017 the year of Oliver Tambo — a year of unity in action among all South Africans in celebration of this great, unifying ANC leader.

Unfortunately, the pronounced unity does not manifest itself when one views the tumultuous political climate in South Africa and inside the ANC and the tripartite alliance.

Zuma had a duty to emulate the esteemed unifying leadership of Tambo.

South Africa has been under attack from imperialism since 1994, and, as such, it is important that intense but meaningful consultations be conducted before reshuffles happen. Despite the presidential prerogative he enjoys, it is imperative that Zuma humbles himself and properly consults the alliance so that reshuffles and decisions are welcomed by all, or at least are seen as the product of meaningful and robust discussions.

Tambo’s name should not be used in vain! — Thabo Thwala, Bothaville