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Blood Money: How Zuma’s Daughter Enabled Putin’s African Body Count

Wednesday, December 10, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

They promised training but delivered trenches. Jacob Zuma’s family lurches from personal scandals to the recruitment of Africans as cannon fodder in Ukraine. iPINIONS decries how his daughter weaponized historical comradeship into blood tribute, and how African governments across the continent remain complicit. Read my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/blood-money-how-zumas-daughter-enabled Read more.

Nelson Mandela International Day Finds South Africa Lost

Monday, July 18, 2022 at 9:33 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Nelson Mandela International Day is all about mobilizing people, governments, NGOs, and corporations to take steps every day to make this world a better place. The United Nations sent out a clarion call today for everyone to redouble efforts to meet the Mandela Day organization’s 2030 goals. Mandela Day goals Goal 1 – Provision of… Read more.

Heart of Darkness Comes to Light as South Africa Apes Worst of Zimbabwe…

Thursday, July 15, 2021 at 6:37 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

The world watched in restrained shock and resigned dismay this week as South Africans looted and pillaged in the name, and arguably at the behest, of their disgraced former president, Jacob Zuma. The defiant 79-year-old was finally convicted of contempt of court last month for refusing to attend an inquiry into state-capture corruption during his… Read more.

Aping Zimbabwe, South Africa Expropriating White Farms to Give to Blacks

Sunday, August 12, 2018 at 11:39 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Corruption, incompetence, lawlessness, and the spectre of racial retribution are driving South Africa into the same dysfunctional shithole where Zimbabwe has been festering for the past 30 years. I have lamented this fateful symmetry in many commentaries, most notably in “South Africa ‘Betraying Its Values’,” May 13, 2011, “Zuma Doing to South Africa What Mugabe… Read more.

South Africa Replaces Corrupt Zuma with Captured Ramaphosa

Friday, February 16, 2018 at 3:35 PM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

The ruling African National Congress (ANC) gave President Jacob Zuma an ultimatum on Monday: resign by Wednesday or be impeached on Thursday (via vote of no-confidence). True to form, the hopelessly beleaguered Zuma strutted and fretted his case on TV until the eleventh hour and then resigned. No doubt he’s now hoping the sinecure he… Read more.

South African Cartoonist Captures President Raping State. “Zuma Must Go!”

Tuesday, April 18, 2017 at 6:49 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Scandals of all types have characterized Jacob Zuma’s presidency. I have decried those scandals in far too many commentaries. A case in point is “Jacob Zuma Issues Professional Fatwa against Cartoonist Zapiro,” December 22, 2008, which includes this prophetic cry: It is a fact, however, that Zuma got off scot-free on a charge of raping a… Read more.

‘Zuma Must Fall!’ Cry, South Africa

Thursday, December 17, 2015 at 2:24 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

People in Pretoria, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth and Johannesburg took to the streets, insisting that corruption has worsened in South Africa since Zuma came to power in 2009… President Zuma caused nationwide anger last week when he dismissed Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene and replaced him with Desmond van Rooyen. The move resulted in an immediate… Read more.

Chief Prosecutor Condemns SA President Zuma and his ruling ANC

Monday, October 21, 2013 at 5:43 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Here is what I wrote six years ago after South Africa’s ruling ANC dumped Thabo Mbeki in favor of Jacob Zuma as party leader, thereby ensuring an ignominious end to Mbeki’s tenure as the country’s second democratically elected president: It’s an insult to Mbeki’s distinguished career of public service that he’s being so unceremoniously upstaged… Read more.

Zuma Zommin South Africa … Again

Sunday, May 5, 2013 at 7:38 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Jacob Zuma, the constitutionally gaffe-prone president of South Africa, had his long-suffering people scratching their heads again last week. This time because it seems he saw nothing undemocratic, or even improper, in granting permission to one of his patrons, the Gupta family, to use a South African military base as their private airport. Evidently, the… Read more.