Tafelberg Short: The Zuma Moment

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Aubrey Matshiqi. Tafelberg Short: The Zuma Moment

The Zuma Moment. and the Road to Mangaung

The birth of the Zuma Moment

The tactical battle for Polokwane

How the battle was lost and won

What is the deep state?

Moral and democratic deficits

The leadership deficit

Governance and policy deficits

International relations and cultural clashes

Racialised and class-based cultural clashes

ANC tensions and the battle for Mangaung

Notes

About the book

About the author

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Aubrey Matshiqi

A few days before, on 2 June 2005, Judge Hilary Squires read a judgment which, contrary to what many expected, would catapult Jacob Zuma to the presidency of the ANC and South Africa. How did a man and struggle hero who was destined to descend into the depths of political ignominy become one of the most important political forces in South African political history?

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Second, Mac Maharaj and Mo Shaik, who operated in the underground military and intelligence structures of the ANC when Zuma was head of ANC intelligence, believed Ngcuka’s prima facie gaffe was informed more by political calculations and less by legal considerations. It is for this reason that they sought to prove Ngcuka was an apartheid spy.

Third, there were rumours at the time of the prima facie controversy that Ngcuka had gone against the legal opinion of more than one senior advocate.

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