Alec Hogg: Jacob Zuma is in jail, SA democracy celebrates

With only minutes before last night's midnight deadline, Jacob Zuma was arrested and will, this morning, wake up in jail. The significance can hardly be exaggerated. Zuma did everything possible to avoid arrest, including Sunday's public show of force by an armed mob at his Nkandla homestead. But with SA's forces for law and order showing resolve, the support base dissipated and was virtually non-existent when Jacob Zuma was taken into custody last night. Here's the link to the story on BizNews.

* Here's a rationally argued article which explains why the Western world may never know the true origin of Covid-19. A BizNews community member who is a retired pathologist pointed me to an excellent piece in Medscape, a publication for healthcare professionals. it is written by Elisabeth Rosenthal, a physician, former NYT reporter and now editor in chief of Kaiser Health News which publishes Medscape. She explains why it's most unlikely the world will ever get to know whether covid-19 leaked from the US part-funded Wuhan lab. The easy-to-read article is available here without charge, but you do need to register for access. Well worth the effort.

* I was among many who got sucked into the revisionist history of now late Kenneth Kuanda. This updated narrative is KK deserves eternal credit for stepping aside after losing the 1991 election, a rarity for an African leader, especially at that time. Conveniently omitted, however, is that KK had by then ruled for 27 years, had only called the election because of US pressure, and later claimed he had been "tricked" into giving up power (his opponent got 76% of the vote). Thanks to the inimitable RW Johnson, I'm now better informed. Here's the link to the former Oxford Don's superb piece that's on Politicsweb.

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