“Whether you have to get to the top of the Kremlin or clamber up Jacob Zuma's slithery and gangrenous pole, politics is a messy business.” — Jacques Pauw Copy Share Image
“Zuma had been infected by the most noxious disease of politics: greed.” — Jacques Pauw Copy Share Image
“the South Africa that Zuma has created has rendered sleazebags blameless, guiltless and even righteous.” — Jacques Pauw Copy Share Image
“His handlers have built an enormous blockhouse for him, and he almost never strays from its air-locked confines. We only encounter him at the… — Jacques Pauw Copy Share Image
“The campaign against the SARS “rogue unit” was driven by elements in the SSA ... Suffice it to say for now that the stories… — Jacques Pauw Copy Share Image
“Can you imagine charging one of the most powerful people in the country with treason and those around him with fraud and corruption?” — Jacques Pauw Copy Share Image
“Only after Zuma has looked after himself comes the small little problem of governing the Republic and its millions and millions of hungry, uneducated… — Jacques Pauw Copy Share Image
“I don’t remember everything that was happening around me at the time, but gangster life was intoxicating and irresistible. It’s difficult to describe the feeling. It’s that jungle culture, the lion syndrome, the Tarzan tag; the invincibility, the lure of living on the edge; having not just one woman but a whole brothel on your tail; the shooting irons, the… — Jacques Pauw Copy Share
“Why has no one, not the Hawks with their serious commercial crimes unit or the police's crime intelligence unit, ever investigated the shenanigans of this family? The State Security Agency (SSA) has a unit that specialises in organised crime. What have they been doing all these years? Why have the Guptas and their associates been allowed to amass their ill-gotten… — Jacques Pauw Copy Share
“It is much quicker to fly from Johannesburg to Lagos than from Moscow to Vladivostok. I couldn't help thinking: can you imagine Jacob Zuma… — Jacques Pauw Copy Share Image
“We have become world leaders in income inequality, racial tension, rape and illicit financial outflows.” — Jacques Pauw Copy Share Image
“The ongoing reports continue to demonstrate years of the most horrendous and systematic looting, stealing, corruption, money laundering and abuse of our state agencies… — Jacques Pauw Copy Share Image
“Ngcukana concluded that Zuma is the “ultimate traitor” for having subverted the police, the Hawks, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) and the intelligence agencies.” — Jacques Pauw Copy Share Image
“The leader of the delegation to Zuma was reportedly Lloyd Hill. At the opening, Hill thanked the president for seeing them and said in… — Jacques Pauw Copy Share Image
![“The leader of the delegation to Zuma was reportedly Lloyd Hill. At the opening, Hill thanked the president for seeing them and said in Afrikaans: “OK, ouens, hier's julle kans nou. Die ou ballie is 'n naai net soos ons [OK, guys, this is your opportunity. This old fossil is a fucker just like us].” quote by Jacques Pauw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c0f/jacques-pauw-18114_leadership_the-leader-of-the-delegation-to-zuma-was_587169.jpg)