Letters

I sat stunned watching Zwelinzima Vavi blasting Judge Hilary Squires over the Schabir Shaik judgment on television. This is the same man who led a Congress of South African Trade Unions delegation to Zimbabwe to protest that government’s corrupt tendencies.

Squires drew his conclusions from the witnesses called during the trial, and to blast him for being a former Rhodesian is senseless.

Do I want a man who is deemed to be corrupt to represent me and all the citizens of this country as its president? Let us not make ourselves the laughing stock of the world. We have already lost credibility with the way we have handled the Zimbabwe issue.

Zuma was always going to be implicated in the Shaik case, considering the evidence presented to the court. The best he can do is save himself the embarrassment and quit, then prove himself innocent in a court of law.

As for the comments by the president of the African National Congress Youth League, I shudder to think what will happen to our youth if he represents their thinking.

With acknowledgements to Sonny Maziwa and the Business Day.