The company I work for subscribes to your outstanding newspaper which I read avidly each day.

For some time now I have been concerned at what appears to be your pet hype of using every occasion to vilify Jacob Zuma ­ as far as you are concerned he is badly tainted and totally incapable *1 of ever being our president.

I have no reason to support him in any way, but the manner in which you take every opportunity to show him up in a bad light gives one the impression that you have already found him guilty.

Furthermore, you appear determined to keep him in the spotlight as a tainted person, thereby continuing to influence public thinking.

This culminated in the leader, Keeping Mbeki off Jacob’s ladder (October 18). Are you both judge *3 and jury *3 in deciding that in your view he has “already caused collateral damage”? How do you know that the charges against him were not largely politically motivated?

Time and the judge will be the deciding factors.

Owen Gush
West Beach

With acknowledgments to Owen Gush and Business Day.