Letters Correspondent

Sitting through Judge Chris Nicholson's judgment on Jacob Zuma, I was shocked by the outcome ­ not only because I wanted to see Zuma stand trial, but because I thought that at least the NPA knew what it was doing and stood above party politics.

How much more naive could I have been? *1

After wasting millions in public money, it seems as if it's as incompetent as all other government departments.

Judge Nicholson, who is now being touted as Zuma's defender, is nothing of the sort.

He seems to feel that Zuma has a case to answer and should have been tried years ago.

Thabo Mbeki is now being seen as a villain, but he is obviously not the only one.

The NPA has for a long time shown problems in its lower ranks *2, and it now joins education, health, water affairs, social development, housing and others as places where people draw very high salaries to do jobs they really don't understand *3.

How much longer will voters be conned by the ANC into believing that those in charge of this country really give a damn?

­ Carol Ogier, Vosburg

With acknowledgements to Carol Ogier and Sunday Times.