Jacob Zuma’s foiled escape to Dubai

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South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma device in distress: Leaked E-Mails reveal his corrupt entanglements with the Gupta family. Part of the Plan: Zuma’s retreat to Dubai.

President Jacob Zuma has shown time and time again, that he survived the strong storms of his political scandals. A push for a vote of censure from the ranks of his own party, the African national Congress (ANC), bounced at the weekend, Zuma’s largely loyal leadership. Clear evidence of the machinations of the President in an E-Mail Form are now on the table: Two South African daily Newspapers familiar E-Mails from the correspondence of the Zuma clan, with the controversial Gupta family and a wave of indignation in the country rekindled.

As A Last Resort, Dubai

A long time, it was known that the with Zuma friends Gupta family had an influence on his policy. The E-Mails are evidence of how far the Arm of the Indian family of entrepreneurs ranged really into the business of Government, and how much they controlled the South African President and some of his Ministers: their Power is sufficient, therefore, to the boardrooms of national corporations. The leading South African newspaper “City Press” and “Sunday Times” revealed that President Zuma was planning, apparently, to the end of his presidency, according to Dubai to withdraw a Plan behind the seemingly the Gupta’s little.

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In a letter that the Sunday Times printed, and is grateful to President Zuma, the crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, General Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, for his hospitality during a return stay for Liege and inform him of his intention to make the United Arab Emirates is his second home: “me and my family will be a privilege to enjoy your patronage during our proposed residence in the United Arab Emirates.” So it is in one of Zuma signed the letter, Zuma’s son Duduzane as a mail attachment from his former employer was sent to a Gupta company.

No early retrieval of Zuma

The flight to Dubai – it could be a strategy of the President, to avoid further legal entanglements, all of which should him bloom after the end of his diplomatic immunity. His only rest was Nkandla, says Zuma now, with reference to a luxury residence in his home, which he left at the state’s expense, to remediate and for which he has already been sentenced to repayments. Political commentator Daniel Silke considers the “Exit-strategy of Dubai” now untenable. “There is no feasible disposal strategy. Regardless of whether or not the E-Mail is authentic: The cover is blown. The Public is now informed.” According to Silke, the “Dubai-a cloud will hang” in Zuma’s remaining term of office is always about him.

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Anyway, it doesn’t look the part, as Zuma had to vacate the seat of government in Pretoria in advance: The vote of no confidence, the ANC leadership member Joel Netshitenze had demanded, was dismissed at the weekend by the party’s leadership Committee. It would have been the second within half a year. The Committee was handpicked by Zuma largely hand-and wool to protect him in view of the E-Mail debacle, says Silke in the DW-Interview. In addition, the ANC is nervous, once again, a President at an early stage: In the case of former President Thabo Mbeki had hurt the party enormously. Finally, there is the end of the year already a legitimate conference that will determine a new ANC leader and presidential candidate for the elections in 2019. “But the pressure on Zuma close,” says Silke. The have certainly contributed to trust his angry reaction to the vote: Zuma had not threatened the ANC Executive Committee, to drive him “to the Uttermost” – for Silke is an indication that more Entmacht could are before.

A Cabinet from the grace of the Gupta’s little

The scandals involving Jacob Zuma, whose son Duduzane played a crucial role. Since joining the Gupta Empire in 2005, the 34-year-old son of the President had denied in his career with high-ranking Posts in the Gupta-own computer company Sahara, in the media and in the mining industry. He also had worked at the company Shiva Uranium, a Gupta company. The have decided to benefit from a 70 billion Euro nuclear deal, the South African government saw the Russian nuclear Agency Rosatom in dry towels to a dish at the end of April. According to the verdict, the contracts would need to be discussed prior to their completion in the Parliament. President Zuma had briefly levelled before, in a rapid reshuffle the way for the lucrative business He had in one night and fog action, the acting Finance Minister, an opponent of the nuclear project, fired by the loyal Malusi Gigaba replaced.

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The now leaked E-Mails also show how the mining Minister Mosebenzi Zwane, 2015 in his office came: Two months before Zuma appointed him, had been sent his resume to the Gupta’s little to review. The E-Mails provide evidence that the Gupta’s little could often buy members of the Cabinet and corporate bosses by the financing of their travel, stays in exclusive Hotels in Dubai and rides in luxury limousines. The power of the Gupta-steered state business is far knitted. “We are witnessing now, as those who want to have President Zuma from office, build up your evidence,” says the political analyst Sithembile Mbete. “But that will not automatically lead to a decision to have him as President, to dismiss.” Not as long as the leadership Committee is almost closed behind the President. South Africa’s crisis-proof President shows anyway, decided to also use the new revelations to sit through. At a press conference on Monday afternoon, the government did the digital evidence as “Fake News”.

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