EDITORIAL: Welcome pushback for those who throw around lies

Former president Jacob Zuma on the third day of testimony before the commission of inquiry into state capture. Picture: AFP/KIM LUDBROOK

Take the case of former president Jacob Zuma and his outrageous allegations against former colleagues, made publicly with no consideration for the consequences for those involved. Anybody who follows Zuma’s official account will see how some of his followers, whether humans or internet bots, took his accusations at face value.

In the Hanekom case, Zuma, emboldened by his ally ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule, called the former minister a “known enemy of the state”. Zuma’s insinuation that Hanekom was a spy came a few days after he sat at the state capture commission of inquiry and stated that two other former ministers, who he had appointed to his cabinet, were spies.

Clearly incensed that ministers he had appointed to the executive would turn around and testify against him, Zuma went on to accuse them of being apartheid spies.

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