Pundits debate blatant Zuptoid muscle flexing

CAPE TOWN — Two possibilities exist around the hi-jacking of the political narrative by the Sunday Times at the weekend. One is that it's simply sloppy journalism, based on unidentified sources. The other is that the journalists concerned had no option but to protect their sources and go that route because of the high-stakes involved. But let's take the high road and say the latter is the case. That begs the question of why those Zuptoids cited as having gathered at a Durban beachfront hotel were so blatantly public about it? Could it perhaps be to openly flex their muscles – the equivalent of a World-Wide Wrestler arrogantly strutting his stuff before the big bout? That there's a concerted fight-back by the Zuptoid camp is certain. How dangerous it is, is probably the more important question. Nobody expects The Zuma Inquisition, especially when to all intents and purposes he and his ilk are on the ropes in the Zondo and Nugent Commissions – and at his fraud trial. What we do know is that he will not go gently into the good night. That's just not Msholozi's style. – Chris Bateman

By Paul Burkhardt

(Bloomberg) – South Africa's ruling party said a newspaper report that former President Jacob Zuma and other top figures in the African National Congress met secretly last week to discuss a strategy to remove his successor Cyril Ramaphosa was "shameless gossip."