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South Africa’s Brave New World: The Beloved Country since Apartheid, by R. W. Johnson
After the Party: Corruption and the ANC, by Andrew Feinstein

I am writing this in Cape Town on the very day that Jacob Zuma is exonerated of all charges of corruption, racketeering and money-laundering — not by a judge, but by an ANC-appointed acting Director of the National Prosecuting Authority. This man defended his decision by claiming that there had been an abuse of due process when the head of the Scorpions anti-corruption unit was recorded by the National Intelligence Agency talking with ANC high-ups, including Thabo Mbeki, about the timing of Zuma’s prosecution. This abuse of process has apparently made the strong case against Zuma unwinnable. But who gave wire-tapped intelligence information to Zuma’s defence team? Presumably people who wanted to keep in with Zuma. So it seems that abuse of process is the prerogative of the current president of the ANC.