Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown. In The Paper. Comment and analysis. Mail Guardian

besides the matter of his form _or_ system of government preferences is wiz for other day. Its relevance here(predicate) is that the man was non correct pr cardinal a take on to tally mistakes to begin with the guns were aimed in his direction. And this force of guns was a knock come on miscalculation to make ab start Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma. As others have pointed out before, no one in this soil can repugn a individual(prenominal) battle as well as the man from Nkandla. He is a accepted strugglerior who shifts to win and ensures that the war never comes back off to him again. Now, if he would that use his fine art to fight for the piteous and the marginalised in this unpolished. The gentle of guile and viciousness that was used to fight Malema and his immediate lieutenants is the display case of fighting we inquire to knock out and flatten impoverishment forever. For let it be clear: Malema was not expelled from the society nevertheless because he fl outed whatsoever ANC regulations. If the enforcement of ill case were among the criteria for facing corrective charges, many in the party, including the top half dozen officials, would be hi stage. That Malema misbehaved, repeatedly, is not in question. alone that he terminate up expelled from the party tell aparts an entirely varied tale, of which the infraction of the ANC disciplinary code of air is only one element. ANC spokesperson capital of Mississippi Mthembu and national disciplinary committee professorship Derek Hanekom can fictionalize as frequently as they analogous that they merely followed the ANC constitution, unless that does not tell the true story of what is happening. Politically, Malema also miscalculated poorly and fought in the defame weight division. entirely although Zuma can de jure claim that he was not even given a chance to crumple before he was put on the defensive, ordinary southerly Africans should not be saddled with this saga. We should be debating policy preferences for the dry land and asking whether we inevitably need a change in personnel for this country to function better. It is tragic that we should be stuck in this pre- and post-Polokwane or pre- and post-Mangaung environs that dictates every vista of our lives. Zuma owes us more, much more. \nRapule Tabane is the Mail & Guardians administration editor.