It is becoming clear that one of the most astute – cunning is more accurate – moves Jacob Zuma made in the days before he vacated the presidency in early 2018 was to leave a poison pill for his successor, Cyril Ramaphosa, to swallow. And that was the promise by Zuma that the state would provide free tertiary education. At the time, he would have known very well that the government did not have enough money to make good on that promise.
And that was the promise by Zuma that the state would provide free tertiary education. At the time, he would have known very well that the government did not have enough money to make good on that promise. Zuma and those around him in the radical economic transformation clique who looted the country blind during the years of state capture, undoubtedly would have foreseen that student and parent anger on the issue would sooner or later boil over into violence.
Zuma and his cohorts have delivered helping upon helping of pie-in-the-sky to their devoted supporters, who seem unable to grasp the realities of modern-day South Africa.