Zuma’s no Sobukwe, but they share common ground
RECENTLY, when President Jacob Zuma wrote his letter to the Zondo Commission, lamenting in some parts that the system is treating him the same way they treated former PAC leader Robert Sobukwe, some looked at it as an attempt to say he is wearing Sobukwe’s shoes.
Of course he is not. Neither was he trying to paint such a picture. Coincidentally, I had scribbled a piece, a week before his letter to the commission, talking about common ground between Sobukwe and Zuma.
There is a clear reason why Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe is not celebrated and deified by the system as much as other
