TIME-wasting legal ploys, ignoring the findings of judicial inquiries that he appointed, shielding political friends while prosecuting political foes, and browbeating his party’s MPs to avoid an impeachment hearing.
These were all used by former president Jacob Zuma to cling to power and to avoid answering in court to what, on the face of it, looked awfully like criminal corruption. There was one notable exception.
Virtually the only state institution to prevail against Zuma’s arsenal of evasion, collusion and