Zuma had a choice to go before the commission
Sydney Majoko
South Africa has become one of few countries on continent where a former head of state has been
treated just like an ordinary citizen.
South Africans may have the last laugh as former President Jacob Zuma may head to prison soon. Picture supplied.
This past week saw a brief return of South African “exceptionalism”, that state of affairs which renders South Africans totally different to the “rest of Africa” in their own eyes. For a few short days, the country saw the triumph of the constitution over the defiance of one man. When Constitutional Court Judge Sisi Khampepe passed down the 15-month jail sentence to former president Jacob Zuma, South Africa became one of those few countries on the continent where a former head of state was treated exactly as an ordinary citizen would have been treated. And for those few short days,...