EFFORTPOST 2018: Jacob Zuma refuses to Resign - JZ almost made a Coup

Greetings Dramastrags!

The past 2 months have been horrible we've had less than 2 hours loadshedding daily average and thus I've actually had to work at the office, and be a functional member of society, instead of sitting in a dark corner, illuminated by nothing but my craptop screen, hissing at passerby's like some kind of goblin creature, while neurodivergentally writing kaamrev Looongposts everyday

Today we will inch closer to the conclusion of the Jacob Zuma Drama Saga(Trademark Copyright), where we will the discuss the events leading up to the apocalyptic 2021 South African riots, which was misreported by braindead foreign BBC journ*lists whom clearly had no fricking idea what they were talking about, and clearly had no grasp of south african society and the events which led up to the 2021 riots.

Some dramatard asked me 5 months ago if I could expand and explain about the 2021 riots, but I forgot his name, and had at the time no idea on how to explain how the frick the 2021 riots started without explaining Jacob Zuma, and his cult of personality, as they were the primary causes of the nationwide riots.

Regardless, JZ or Msholozi, as Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma was known as as, is intertwined with the 2021 Riots, and thus we will begin the story from the very beginning.

TYING IN TO PREVIOUS KAAMREV LOOONPOSTS:

The last time we dramatards covered Jacob Zuma, was when he had just embroiled himself with the Infamous (in RSA) Nkandla scandal - where where the Zuma dynasty was under intense public criticism because they had openly and shamelessly abused public funds for self-enrichment, in the form of building a giant Homestead mega-mansion in the small dustball town of Nkandla - a SA town located in the Kwazulu-Natal province so fricking poor that it had a 44% joblessness rate.

The Nkandla scandal would basically take about 5 years to ferment before it caught traction in the mainstream public attention, as ANC-wingcucks, and the general SA black population got over the Honeymoon phase of Zuma's immensely corrupt and incompetence presidency, which in many cases actually WORSENED poverty for poor shanty town blacks. Covered in my previous autism looonpost as below:

https://rdrama.net/post/205860/marseyflagsouthafrica-jacob-zuma-the-nkandla-residence (Jacob Zuma Saga 2)

The Nkandla residence was ironically one of Jacob Zuma's least worst corruption scandals in terms of scale and influence, especially compared to the manner in which Jacob Zuma sold out many keystone industries for the Indian Mafia Guptas family, which destroyed key industries like mining and electricity generation - covered in my previous autism looonpost earlier this year, where the famous Sun City Theme Park incident exposed to the general RSA public the absurd and monumental influence the Guptas family had over RSA and Zuma himself, after a fricking military airbase was hired to land 200 ultra rich guests from India!

https://rdrama.net/post/162984/marseyflagsouthafrica-south-african-theme-park-racism (Jacob Zuma Saga 3)

However, the Nkandla Residence Homestead scandal was the watershed moment for Zuma, where a critical amount of general public support turned deceisively against him, most specifically from black peeps in RSA. Nkandla demonstrated to the black public the general contempt that rich fatcats like the Zumas had towards national standards of equity, as the building of the Homestead inside the ultra turbo impoverished Nkandla village was just as grotesque a shameless display as the embezzlement of public funds for personal use.

Additionally Zuma had been caught in multiple lies which was memed to death by South Africans of all races - the most infamous meme being the Nkandla Fire Pool. Where basically Zuma lied to the nation, through his teeth that public funds meant for security had not been used for personnel recreation, a fact which was moronically disproved by cameras visiting the mega-mansion, showing a few hired firemen making fools of themselves trying to show a clearly swimming pool with steps and tiles, was supposedly a water reserve for dousing emergency fires - it caused a media frenzy shitshow.

Comedians and memes would mock the Nkandla Fire Pool to a national consciousness, to the same degree as when the Burgerland president lied about having received a blowjob in his office.

Anyways the point remains that Nkandla was the deathknel for Zuma, but it only gained traction after he had already won his 2nd election as president of the ANC party, and the country of SA, thus even though he was already intensely unpopular, and had made zounds of enemies within his party, and without, the slimy corrupt fricker still had 4 YEARS OF RULE LEFT! (up until 2018)!

Finally if anyone gives a shit, Zuma also had intense drama involving a r$pe trial, a year prior to becoming the president of the ANC and RSA, where he was accused of raping a woman, but was excused through powerful manipulation of the courts, and intense wingcuckery on behalf of his own party, including fricking the The ANC Women's League whom would class just outside the Supreme Court with smaller groups of anti-r*pe protesters.

While the effects of the r@pe-trial was negligible on losing Zuma any support, his previous conduct would begin to resurface post 2014 (basically 6 years after the trial) as Zuma had accumulated many political enemies , whom wanted to use any past ammunition against Zuma to paint him in the worst light possible. The irony here was that many of the Zulu ANC members whom had stood up for Zuma during his trial, now changed their message and condemned his conduct and arrogance during the trial, something they had helped suppress!

https://rdrama.net/post/203575/marseyflagsouthafrica-jacob-zuma-rpe-trial-and (Jacob Zuma Saga 1)

JACOB ZUMA POST 2014 - LOSING SUPPORT RAPIDLY:

It was a great irony that by the time the Nkandla scandal broken wide open in the RSA public wide conscience, Zuma had already been elected 6 months in 2014, thus the slimeball had still another 4 years to r*pe the country and its economy with his radical policies and his populism. It's also important to note, many black peeps who voted are only ANC loyalists, and voted for the ANC, not Zuma, as it is the South African manner to vote for parties not individuals - those parties are alone responsible for their internal leadership.

Thus many black peeps while wingcucked, weren't THAT wingcucked, and their loyalty was towards the ANC, the party of Nelson Mandela, not to Zuma. Thus even as they voted for the ANC, they cursed Zuma under their breaths. How many Blue-no-matter-who libtards swallow their bile, and just vote democrat every year in Burgerland?

I mention this so that dramatards can understand the context of the 2014 election. Some of you may go to the 2014 SA election pages and read the turnouts and results and go: "kaamrev, ur completely full of shit - the 2014 elections show that the ANC still dominated by 65% of the electorate!"

But I want you guys to understand that internal instability would plague the ANC rule for the entirety of the next 4 years

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_South_African_general_election

Now Zuma had retained loyalty and support despite his extreme corruption and nepotism, because of his radical leftwing policies - even much more so than both Mandela and Mbeki before him.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/dec/15/southafrica.chrismcgreal

Prez Mbeki before him was much more neoliberal and capitalistic, and wanted to continue the more moderate policies of Mandela before him, however by the time Zuma arrived as prez in 2009, it had been over 15 years of ANC rule, and much of the black populace was still suffering the hardships of extreme poverty and lack of infrastructure. Worse yet was that the birthrate of black peeps had doubled since the introduction of the grants system under the Mandela Administration, meaning the black population kept expanding, meaning the RDP homes built for the underpriviledged was never fast enough, as peeps kept breeding like hares which the grant system encouraged, thus at all times in the 15 years since 1993, perpetually at least a 3rd of the SA black population was homeless that lived in sinkhouses in shantytowns.

This bred a large poor population easily talked to by populists like Zuma whom would promise the radical redistribution of wealth from the middle class whites of RSA whom still after 15 years of ANC effort (or rather the lack there of ) remained a large wealth gap.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02589001.2018.1522424

He would support policies like radical economic transformation (RET), which involved expropriation without compensation - the taking of white farmland without appeal, and more significantly without paying them shit - this was radical policies often championed by far-left like Julias Malema.

https://mg.co.za/article/2017-04-25-zumas-plan-for-radical-economic-transformation-is-just-bee-on-steriods

https://mg.co.za/article/2017-04-21-00-its-radical-economic-gibberish

"Zuma thinks that by using meaningless phrases such as “radical economic transformation” he can regain the historic Polokwane moment. This foolish man does not accept that his time has expired. We are simply experiencing a painfully inelegant final movie scene that the directors should have cut 30 minutes ago. The directors, also known as the national executive committee of the ANC, are hamstrung by self-serving creative differences.

If Zuma wanted to transform the economy radically, he should have done so from 2009. He had the power all along. But he failed because he never gave a darn about anyone other than himself, his family and his handlers."

Anyways his specific policies are a different drama, but I wanted to illustrate why he was popular in the 1st place - he used diversionary rhetoric and populism to galvanize the poor black voting blocs. It's far easier to point at middle class whites living next to townships, as this is proof on inequality which can be seen by the naked eye.

It is much more difficult to comprehend the complexities of state capture, and Nepotism, and state beaurucrats stealing from funds meant to uplift the poor. Zuma claimed that critics of his politics were agents of "white monopoly capital".

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2017-06-26-chamber-of-mines-mining-charter-is-illegal-unconstitutional-and-stupefying

ANYONE BUT ZUMA - RSA VERSION OF BLUE-NO-MATTER-WHO:

https://mg.co.za/article/2012-11-22-nomura-calls-mangaung-for-zuma

Despite an "Anyone but Zuma" campaign in the run-up to the ANC's 53rd National Conference, Zuma was re-elected ANC president on 18 December 2012, beating Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe by a large margin.

In January 2014, after he was heckled at Mandela's memorial, the Sunday Tribune reported that around November 2013, KwaZulu-Natal branches of the ANC had discussed a proposed resolution asking Zuma not to run for a second term as the country's president. They feared that Zuma would jepordize the SA General Election for them - although we in hindsight know that black peeps voted for him anyway lol.

https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/stand-down-request-for-zuma-1637053

JACOB ZUMA POST 2015 - SUPPORT CONTINUES TO DWINDLE:

https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/news/2015-12-17-gupta-family-seen-as-symbol-of-zumas-failing-rule

With the double hammer of both the Nkandla scandal, and the news that the Guptas family had used the Waterkloof South African military airbase as their personal wedding venue facilitator, a large amount of protests would take place for the 1st time directly against Zuma by name, in 2015.

=====(from TimesLive article - extremely good article - goes over the meat of the issue in 2015.

As South Africans endure their deepest economic crisis since 2009, it's not just President Jacob Zuma they blame. There's a family whose name is increasingly the target of protest: the Guptas.

As tens of thousands marched in October in the biggest wave of nationwide anti-government protests since the ANC came to power, one poster, broadcast on the nation's television channels, captured the public anger: “SA: Gupta Farm.”

Since Atul Gupta arrived in South Africa from Uttar Pradesh, India, in 1993, a year before the election of Nelson Mandela marked the end of apartheid, he and his brothers Rajesh and Ajay have built on a computer business to amass stakes in uranium, gold and coal mines, a luxury game lodge, an engineering company, a newspaper and a 24-hour news TV station.

Having employed or been in business with at least three of President Zuma's immediate family, including his son Duduzane, the family drew increased scrutiny in September as opposition parties and local newspapers raised the question that they may have influenced the appointment of a minister to manage the embattled and important mining industry.

‘Extraordinary Privileges'

“They are the chieftains of patronage. They get extraordinary privileges from the president,” Mmusi Maimane (this guy is the RSA Obama minus drones), the leader of the main opposition Democratic Alliance, said. “Zuma is controlled by the Guptas. Once you have a weak institution like the ANC and a government that is institutionally captured, you only have to win control over a few individuals like Jacob Zuma and you control everything.”

Analysts concur.

It's a deeply troubling relationship between the Gupta family and the president's family,” said Nic Borain, an adviser to BNP Paribas Securities South Africa. “There are a multitude of documented relationships and there is a very widespread acceptance and assumption that this goes beyond undue influence. This goes close to capture of political authority by a group of foreign businessmen.”

Violent Protests

With one of the world's highest levels of economic inequality and a 25.5% unemployment rate, public anger is mounting against the ANC, which has won more than 60% of the vote in every general election since 1994. That anger was exacerbated this month when Zuma fired a respected finance minister and replaced him with a relatively unknown lawmaker only to change his decision four days later when he reappointed a former finance minister, Pravin Gordhan. The rand weakened as much as 10% against the dollar and bonds and banks stocks plunged before paring their declines when Gordhan was appointed.

The police documented 2,289 violent demonstrations by communities demanding better housing, education and other services in the year through March, up from 1,907 the year before.

Recurring themes at recent protests are white domination of the economy, ineffectual government and increasingly, corruption. In South Africa, 83% of people believe that corruption is on the rise, compared with 58% across the continent, according to a Transparency International survey this month.

Some of those who have done business with the Guptas say they've kept companies open and safeguarded jobs.

Saving Jobs

Abel Malinga, the head of mining and metals at South Africa's state-owned Industrial Development Corp., said the corporation in 2010 lent R250 million to the Guptas' Oakbay Resources and Energy Ltd. to buy a uranium and gold mine they now control along with Duduzane Zuma because it was about to be closed under previous management at the cost of 2,400 jobs. The IDC converted the loan into a stake in Oakbay.

“The jobs are still there, they are still producing gold,” Malinga said. “There is no preferential treatment from our side. No political pressure.”

The Guptas have been friends with President Zuma from about the turn of the century, Atul Gupta, the 47-year-old chairman of Oakbay who pioneered the move to South Africa, said in an interview with the Daily Maverick in 2011.

Zuma's wife Bongi Ngema-Zuma worked for Gupta-controlled JIC Mining Services as a communications officer. His daughter Duduzile was a director at Sahara Computers Ltd., the Guptas' main computer business, for more than a year ending in 2009. And Duduzane has worked with the Guptas for 11 years, initially starting as a 22-year-old trainee at Sahara.

‘Guptagate' Affair

“Anyone out there who believes that we've benefited in any of the deals politically, please come forward,” he said in an interview with Talk Radio 702. “Drag us by our collars to a court of law. But if not, leave us the heck alone.”

The incident that made the Guptas front-page news occurred in April 2013, when they flew 217 people in a chartered jetliner to the Waterkloof air-force base in Pretoria for their niece's wedding. They welcomed them with music and dancing, and shuttled them to the Sun City casino and resort in helicopters and black BMWs, according to a government report investigating how a commercial plan landed at an air force base. The police illegally used their blue lights as they escorted the party, it said.

Military Airport

When the airport manager of South Africa's main commercial airport wouldn't accommodate them, the Guptas approached the defense minister to use Waterkloof, even though it's classified as a top-security site and commercial use is prohibited, according to the report.

When that too failed they asked the Indian embassy to make it look like the visit was by an official delegation, according to the report, describing that as an abuse of diplomatic channels. The report concluded that the landing had been authorized because Zuma's name was falsely invoked. It also said some of the cars had false license plates and the security company used was unregistered.

Family Apologizes

The landing stirred such an outcry that it became known by the press and government critics as “Guptagate.” It attracted ridicule, including by comedian Trevor Noah, who has since become the host of the Daily Show in New York. Zapiro drew a sketch depicting the three Gupta brothers as welcoming bride and groom with a fleet of police cars and saluting officers and saying: “For your wedding gift we bought you a country and a president.”

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SA NATION BREATHES SIGH OF RELIEF:

https://www.news24.com/news24/SouthAfrica/News/live-anc-voting-results-expected-20171218

Zuma had such profound influence upon South Africa, that for the 1st time news networks dedicated journ*list teams to go directly to an ANC internal election conference for the 1st time in history - for like 2 months prior to the 54th National Conference of the African National Congress (ANC) (which took place from 16 to 20 December 2017 at the Johannesburg Expo Centre in Nasrec, Gauteng), that fricking mainstream news were joked to have have an update whenever a high ANC official had a fart, because it became almost unbearable.

Yet the whole fricking nation was tense , a lot of infighting was taking place in the ANC, and everyone knew that the ANC would win a supermajority for the 2018 SA general election, and thus the ANC internal leadership election of 2017 had massive influence upon everyone here, and was under considerable scrutiy.

Just look at this fricking article from news24 in 2017 - fricking twitter updates every 30 minutes on the big day, apparently this was their most viewed article that year.

I know this was probably nothing for 1st world places like burgerland - but for for RSA this was unique and surreal.

Anyways, happy days for Harrison Gumedi, Ramaphosa would win the ANC presidency away from Zuma, and the whole fricking nation breathed a sigh of relief.

ZUMA FINALLY RESIGNS:

Once Ramaphosa replaced Zuma as ANC president, there was growing pressure for the latter to resign from the national presidency. On 6 February 2018, Zuma's annual State of the Nation Address, scheduled for 8 February, was postponed indefinitely "to create room for establishing a much more conducive political atmosphere"

This made everyone shit brix, as we all feared that Zuma would refuse to evacuate the presidency and would try to induce some soft or autocracy or refuse the election results or something, and in those days there was a palpable atmosphere in the country. It also wasn't a far fetched theory - many Zulus openly preached that they would support a Zuma backed coup attempt.

https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/national/2018-02-06-state-of-nation-address-postponed

Later it came out that it was opposition parties who requested the postponement so that Zuma couldn't have the key speech moment, and have the last say.

The following week, Ramaphosa and Zuma spent almost five days in talks. On 12 December, when it became clear that the negotiations had failed, the ANC National Executive Committee convened an emergency meeting near Pretoria, and, after nearly ten hours of debate, decided that Zuma should be "recalled" by the party if he did not resign voluntarily.

Ramaphosa and another senior official reportedly drove to Zuma's home just after midnight to deliver the ultimatum, but Zuma refused, insisting on a three-month notice period or transition period before leaving office. That's right! Zuma wanted 3 fricking months before he gtfo's to make room for the next prez

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/12/reports-that-south-africa-president-jacob-zuma-has-resigned-dismissed-by-anc

=====(from Gaurdian article)

Jacob Zuma has defied an ultimatum from South Africa's ruling party to resign within 48 hours, pitching the “Rainbow Nation” into an unprecedented political crisis.

The meeting of the ANC's national executive committee (NEC) was called after it became clear over the weekend that nearly five days of talks between Zuma, who has been South Africa's president since 2009, and the deputy president, Cyril Ramaphosa, who took over the leadership of the ANC in December, had failed.

Zuma's tumultuous nine years in power have been marred by economic decline and multiple charges of corruption that undermined the image and legitimacy of the party that led South Africans to freedom from apartheid in 1994.

However, the 75-year-old retains significant support inside the party and at a local level in many parts of South Africa. Ralph Mathekga, a political analyst and author, said: “Zuma is not just a person. He is a system. There are a whole lot of people whose politics fortunes are tied to his.

“We are watching a battle for the soul of the ANC. It's a referendum on the true balance of power within the party.”

The opaque and secretive internal ANC debates and negotiations have provoked much dark humour.

Zapiro, a well-known political cartoonist, drew Zuma and Ramaphosa as gunfighters under a banner bearing the legend “High Noon”, corrected to “High Noonish” then “Low Noon” and finally “Whenever”.

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https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/cartoon/high-noon

If you dramatards are confused as to what the frick - let me explain. Zuma was in deep deep shit, he had made zounds of enemies, and without the protection of his office he was definitely going to be fricking prosecuted by the courts for his corruption the moment he stepped out the office, thus he tried like an infant child to keep grasping whatever power he had desperately.

MILITARY DIVIDED ON ZUMA:

https://www.news24.com/News24/security-bosses-reveal-how-cyril-dodged-a-coup-20180722-2

Finally after two months of this clownshow Zuma was forced to resign, but not before the most incompetent attempt at a coup in history was thwarted.

=====(This article explains it clearly)

Senior military leaders played down the threat this week, saying the top brass would not have tolerated a mutiny, that they were “above petty party politics” and the idea of keeping Zuma in power by force did not even arise. They insisted the army was loyal to the Constitution and that the chief of the army, General Solly Shoke, had continuously championed this.

SA National Defence Force (SANDF) insiders said ANC elements who wanted to advance their factional interests were trying to use the military as a proxy in their political battles, but it would not succeed.

Fringe groups such as the MK Inkululeko Foundation, which was one of Zuma's fiercest defenders, had launched a “Hands off Zuma” campaign, and spoke of a civil war if Zuma was not allowed to complete his term and remain in office until next year's general election.

Zuma also enjoyed significant support in the Umkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans' Association, which comprises the ANC's former liberation soldiers.

One Zuma lieutenant warned that Ramaphosa was again “meddling” in the affairs of very powerful people in the security cluster through his appointment of a high-level review panel on the State Security Agency, which could spell similar trouble for him.

“Those guys will not be happy to have him suddenly saying he is re-vetting them and all those things, and they could bring down his government,” he said.

Ramaphosa allies confirmed the military threat, but added that generals loyal to Zuma tried to push the agenda, but were defied by the rank and file.

“Our Constitution saved us from that crisis,” said a Luthuli House insider. “The military, almost all generals, did not support the recall. When Zuma rose to power, he changed the entire army hierarchy and placed many loyal soldiers in it.”

A senior member of the ANC alliance said that, aside from a military revolt, they also learnt that Zuma intended to fire Ramaphosa as deputy president in a snap Cabinet reshuffle as part of his fight-back plan. The alliance insider confirmed meetings with army officials, adding that the State Security Agency was also lobbied to revolt, but all plots were foiled.

However, Zuma's allies mentioned former security agency director-general Arthur Fraser as one of those who worked behind the scenes to prevent the crisis.

A member of the ANC national executive committee (NEC) said that “there had been talks” about the army revolt. “At the time, there was also a lot of misinformation, but, yes, Zuma had wanted to fight through the army as commander in chief.”

He said Zuma should also be credited with having the wisdom to see “it would not work out”, after which he “ended up hanging up his gloves”. (Translation: Zuma got cucked by army commanders who told him to frick off )

Zuma sympathisers said his statement that “some people may fight” during his interview hours before he stepped down was based on “nothing but the fact that he enjoyed a lot of grass roots support”, and that he wanted to travel the country with Ramaphosa to forge ANC unity.

On February 18, four days after Zuma resigned, Ramaphosa went to Kimberley, where he thanked soldiers for “a bloodless leadership change”.

Brigadier General Mafi Mgobozi yesterday said allegations of interference in political leadership were “baseless”.

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AFTERMATH: Zuma charged with State Capture

On 16 March 2018, a month after Zuma resigned from the presidency, the NPA (South Africa's National Prosecuting Authority) announced that he would again face prosecution on the same 16 criminal charges he was indicted on in 2006: 12 charges of fraud, two of corruption, and one each of racketeering and money laundering, all related to the 1999 Arms Deal and to Zuma's relationship with Shaik.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-43426971

The case was enrolled in the Pietermaritzburg High Court. Zuma pleaded not guilty when the trial would begin on 26 May 2021. And it was this trial which would lead to the apocalyptic 2021 South African Riots.

Join me next time for the climax of this Saga, when multiple SA provinces would burn, and make the 2020 George Floyd protests protests look minor in comparison!

That's all I got, Good Night