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Friday, March 31 – when President Jacob Zuma announced his Cabinet reshuffle without consulting his fellow ANC top six officials – will go down in history, in my opinion, as the day he compromised his already diminishing powers.
In effect, he gave them the excuse they had been looking for for a long time to take him on publicly. While the lack of consultation allowed him to proceed with the Cabinet changes he wanted, it opened an avenue – a permanent one – for others to feel free to criticise him with gay abandon.
