To survive politically Ramaphosa must curtail the spread of the new variant of Covid-19 so that it does not require further lockdowns and consequent impacts on the economy which would provide heavy ammunition for his eager political opponents former President Jacob Zuma ANC Secretary-General Ace Magashule and their supporters (AC Vol 61 No 14 Showdown to follow lockdown)...

While former President Jacob Zuma has been Zondo's major critic Ramaphosa has maintained a more neutral stance towards the Commission over its two years of hearings...

The Constitutional Court rules that the 2017 appointment of Jacob Zuma ally Shaun Abrahams as National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) director was illegal...

The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) a leading anti-corruption body that has been instrumental in exposing and documenting graft said that it appeared that the country was returning to the rule of law after nearly a decade of corruption under former President Jacob Zuma (AC Vol 59 No 4 A Saint Valentine's Day massacre of sorts)...

The extent of chronic corruption under former President Jacob Zuma is daily exposed in the hearings of the Zondo commission and estimates of its cost run as high as 1...

The ANC faction loyal to former President Jacob Zuma has been pushing for radical business-hostile reforms such as the nationalisation of the central bank the South African Reserve Bank a national health insurance scheme proscribed assets a basic income grant and land expropriation without compensation (AC Vol 60 No 12 A tale of two ANCs & Vol 60 No 21 'Dump Cyril' move in KZN)...

Electricity supply has been interrupted by the lack of maintenance chronic delays with the construction of two new coal-fired stations and a decade of looting under Jacob Zuma's government many of whose key members face investigation...

5 trillion rand ($90bn) looted from state funds by overpriced state tenders and kickbacks during the nine years of Jacob Zuma's presidency (AC Vol 59 No 2 Big change no fanfare Vol 60 No 18 Ramaphosa right and left & Vol 61 No 1 Finally Cyril picks up the pace)...

The next phase of Denel's development according to ex-ANC MP and arms trade expert Andrew Feinstein came under President Thabo Mbeki and his then deputy Jacob Zuma and the notorious $7 billion 'arms deal' when enormous quantities of European military equipment were purchased after the payment of huge bribes (AC Vol 44 No 18 BAE's role in SA's big arms deal & Vol 59 No 7 No farewell to arms deals)...

Along with a posse of top politicians allied with ex-President Jacob Zuma Magashule has become a symbol of the era of state capture in South Africa...