Zuma's legacy on the line

In the book I am reading, a gradual rebellion by judges throws a society into chaos, leading to the collapse of the government and the division of the population into dozens of tribes.

- KYLE ZEEMAN

In the book I am reading, a gradual rebellion by judges throws a society into chaos, leading to the collapse of the government and the division of the population into dozens of tribes. Diverse, they maintain peace only by agreeing not to fight each other. In the end, it fails, and war becomes as common as potholes on a Joburg road.

Thousands of years later, former president Jacob Zuma is trying to unite political tribes. He, too, it seems, is failing.

When Zuma connived the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party, he was aiming to create an ANC outside of the liberation movement, a duplicate that was close enough to the original that people would join, but without the rules and boundaries that constrained him.