• Cliff Buchler, former Managing Editor of Caxton West Rand writes:
It has taken a mix of woman’s logic and drugs administered in hospital to change my take on former president Jacob Zuma’s fate. His ducking the courts has been handy fodder for writers to fall back on when they’ve nothing substantial to write about. I plead guilty.
OK, he is a failed president suspected of bringing the country to its knees and still has the audacity pleading innocence. Even when it came to the day he was sentenced, he had since managed to escape actual imprisonment by fair means or foul. Another act of genius to help fill opinion pages.
Having said all that, why then my about-turn? This is where only a woman’s intuition comes in – a missing element in a man’s make-up. (This means men and woman are different, a fact ignored by the ultra-feminists.) My Heidi’s words came flooding back when back in the recuperative ward after a successful aorta valve (Porky) replacement procedure.
I quote Heidi: “Was the old man solely on the take in the arms deal? No way. It takes two to tango. Who were they? Not ghosts. And who in the cabinet were aware of it, but turned a blind eye? The whole gang. Again, why have their names been withheld for so long? The one man who could’ve ripped the veil from the closely guarded shenanigans is who? Jacob Zuma.
At one stage he got near it by saying he’ll expose the truth. It follows if he had, innocent (sic) ministers would’ve been implicated, bringing the ANC into disrepute. Perhaps its end.
This could not be allowed. Google the names of the cabinet at the time. Heidi’s words continue taking up brain space, delete key unresponsive. Never thought I’d say this: Let’s quit targeting Zuma but rather the ANC as a whole. Free the old man who must be dog-tired defending an entire corrupt regime, to spend his last days in Nkandla with regrets and without a virtuous legacy, punishment enough. Only solution is using the ballot box to pass judgment on the real sinners.
