He might have survived the latest vote of no confidence, but even the unflappable JZ will be feeling the pinch.
The wolves are circling, and that pressure is now being extended to Zuma’s sons.
I guess they know that the looting will have to stop (or at least slow down) once Daddy Dearest no longer runs the show, so they’re firing on all cylinders while they can.
Duduzane just penned an open letter to Pravin Gordhan, blaming the former finance minister for his banking woes, with Dudu’s accounts having recently been frozen.
Some of that open letter via the Daily Maverick:
“All of my bank accounts have been closed by your ‘friends’ in the banking industry. Likely with your support. Anybody can see that you are in bed with them, rather than on the side of hard-working South African citizens,” reads the letter, repeating rumours that Gordhan has failed to disclose shares in the financial services industry.
The younger Zuma lists “some key facts” he claims are being ignored. He says the Competition Commission lays charges against businesses but nothing happens to them, such as the banks accused of fixing the exchange price of the rand…
“Why are their bank accounts still open? Why are you not calling for inquiries and prosecutions? Yet you ignore all of this and persecute me and my business partners,” writes Zuma. He says there were no conclusive findings in the Public Protector’s State of Capture report; he and the Gupta family were cleared by the Hawks and whistleblowers who were invited to report to the ANC came up with nothing against him.
His “facts” could be straight out of an ANN7 panel discussion. He accused Gordhan of wasting taxpayers’ money in the former minister’s failed court attempt to get a declaratory order that a minister couldn’t intervene in the banks’ relationships with clients
“And still you say we are corrupt – and others are clean,” he tells Gordhan. “You are a conspiracy theorist who failed as a minister of this great country. You grandstand in Parliament and embarrass this country. Do you not think that the people of this country can see what you are doing?”
I think you’ll find the people of this country are pretty clear on what’s going on there, Duduzane.
I’ll tell you who isn’t buying it – the Save South Africa campaign. This via Business Day:
[They] described the letter as a “bizarre attempt to deflect attention away from increasing evidence against him and his cronies of their central role in state capture and corruption. Rather than explain his role in this‚ he resorts to intimidation‚ incitement and hate speech‚ in a style that is increasingly becoming the trademark of the Zuma family.”
You might have seen this already, but how about Edward and that video of him losing his marbles?
We’re going to give Edward the benefit of the doubt and say he was drunk here, because if he wasn’t then I guess this is even sadder.
Pravin Gordhan was speaking during the Gandhi memorial lecture this past Friday in Pietermaritzburg, when Edward decided to get his heckle on.
Via this tweet:
After Edward Zuma’s comments on Pravin Gordhan, I can easily confirm that idiocy & stupidity can be passed on from the father to a child…. pic.twitter.com/USuLCaCte9
— IG @AdvBarryRoux (@AdvBarryRoux) August 26, 2017
Good use of hashtags there, silent man with yellow sign. If you really want to make it big, you should hop on THIS bandwagon.
Sjoe, that video is more embarrassing than when you have too much to drink at the staff party and everyone shows you video evidence on Monday morning.
The Zumas hey – birds of a feather, that lot.
[sources:dailymaverick&businessday]
