President Jacob Zuma’s Cabinet reshuffle and its aftershocks is headline news not just in South Africa but in the rest of the world. Once again, South Africa is in the limelight for all the wrong reasons. PHOTO|FILE
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The majority South Africans learned about this in the early hours of Thursday morning, and when they did, the country plunged into a political crisis and further split the African National Congress (ANC). The 105-year-old party has ruled unchallenged since the end of apartheid in 1994, but is now in disarray.
Analysts are convinced that by taking the unusual step of swinging the axe without consulting senior members of his troubled party, Mr Zuma has taken the biggest political risk of his scandal-hit presidency.
