Zuma - The Beginning of the End

Jacob Zuma’s legal team, accompanied by similar teams representing the Speaker of the House of Parliament and the Minister of Police, suffered a humiliating defeat in the Constitutional Court today, a defeat that went a long way to confirming to South Africans that Justice is alive and well in the country. 

Just one day after President Zuma appeared on SABC TV in the company of sycophantic ANC supporters, and announced that ‘the people love the ANC, the people love the President’, the legal counsel representing Zuma was forced to beg, in the most humiliating plea ever seen in a Court case involving the President or the ANC Government, that the Constitutional Court should not hand down a judgment that could be used by the Opposition to apply for his impeachment!  Another counsel walked herself into a tangle of contradiction and confusion before being forced to admit that the President had contravened the Constitution when he requested (instructed?) the Minister of Police to deliver to Parliament the most obvious tissue of lies ever constructed for that august body, excluding any possibility that he had breached his oath of office to uphold the Constitution, a fabrication that was swallowed hook, line and sinker by his tied ANC Members, for whom Zuma must be close to a God to behave in the unthinking and undemocratic manner the President and his Party have coerced them to.  The next embarrassment arrived when the third counsel talked himself into an admission that the Minister of Police had delivered that whitewash report on the instruction of the President, knowing full well that the President was in breach of the Constitution and his Oath of Office, excusing the conduct by stating that the Minister had acted under Zuma’s orders!  That lamentable statement, the equivalent of the excuses offered by the Nazi war criminals at the Nuremburg Trials, that they had acted under orders, was pounced upon by a Judge of the Constitutional Court, asking if it was the full truth.  After some stumbling, the counsel retracted the statement, saying that it was not his intention to state that, but the damage was done.  The truth is out – Jacob Zuma has bribed or terrorized his Cabinet into doing precisely what he orders them to do, regardless of the rightness of it, or of their duty under the Constitution, the laws of perjury and even of their personal sense of honor.

Judgment has not yet been handed down, but the writing has clearly been engraved in the concrete of Zuma’s office wall.  He is guilty of a breach of his Oath of Office, of is duties under the Constitution and of his duties to the people he claims to represent.  Zuma has admitted in writing that he is no better than an odious slug, feasting on the carcass of the nation that he was elected to lead, and lying repeatedly about it.  The only question that remains is how long the citizens of the country will tolerate this disease in the highest office?