Parts two and three, in which the Zuma dynasty finds it …

Duduzane Zuma and former President Jacob Zuma. (Photos: Gallo Images | Netwerk24 / Felix Dlangamandla)

Quick, get two matches, open your eyes, and watch parts two and three of Duduzane’s Dubai Lockdown Diary in which the Zuma dynasty is repeatedly vulnerable to invisible malevolent forces so effective that they literally leave the family without agency.

Everything in Duduzane’s world happens to his father and family. Here the dynasty seems to have been cast adrift in the world, unfortunate captives in the face of fabricated vile circumstances.

Nothing in this world is what it seems. Everything is a shadow game.

In this kingdom, the Zuma family is attacked by enemies and invisible traitors. Here, the mysterious individuals are so cunning that they can penetrate the then-President of the Republic of South Africa at great cost and poison the iron-clad security cordon. TWICE.

The pile of debts with which the family is currently burdened and which has seen the former President of the Republic of South Africa affirm that he has had to resort to selling her clothes everything has been designed to bankrupt Msholozi and his dependents.

Duduzane’s project aimed to rehabilitate the reputation of the Zuma family, Zoom with the Zumas, fell on YouTube on May 4.

Like a limited series on Netflix, two more episodes quickly followed. The series is presented as a package of “conversations,” but they are more riffs from the stream of consciousness from the windmills of young Dudu’s mind.

Dudu Jr can speak for up to 30 minutes. A murmur of a young man standing on the edge of history throwing stones that only touch the surface of truth and logic. All this while your father sits quietly on a terrace in Nkandla listening and nodding, sometimes so disturbingly that you start to think that WiFi has stopped dampening.

At some point, the hot crow of a rooster momentarily locates the son / dad partially hitting Nkandla. It would have been providence if I had sung it three times, but this bird clearly does not have the habit of betrayal, the rooster knows where the bread is smeared with butter.

At the time of writing, the three episodes of the Zuma dynasty had collectively received over 300,000 visits.

Part Two returns to Part One just like Part Three, unrolling the circular nature of the narrative. And so key themes, themes, and villains emerge, most without a name (but you know who you are) as the facts surround the drain of memory.

Frank Chikane, DD Mabuza, Cyril Ramaphosa and the ANC he leads. An ANC, Zuma states without hesitation, in which money came to play a role for the first time during the party’s 2017 elective conference in Nasrec.

“People who agreed to be bought would find it difficult to adhere to the principles,” says Zuma expertly about Nasrec.

This was an ANC, the former president said, with “foreign” tendencies who later inexplicably asked him to resign as president of South Africa.

“I kept asking, what have I done?” Zuma Sr reminds you of Zuma Jr and the rest of us.

While laughing at each other’s jokes, they can’t hide their wound over low heat. Zuma and Son hold many grudges and are not in the business of forgiveness.

While Zuma Jr discusses the NEC meetings as if he were one of the party’s first six elected, Zuma Sr volunteered so that today he only feels in these meetings, a calm and melancholic presence, observing everyone, what they say, what they do.

It is the money, the filthy profit, that has ruined the ANC, says the former No. 1 and now he will soon be charged No. 1 in his next corruption trial.

“There are figures, there are accounts,” Zuma said without citing any of these.

Not a single glimpse of Zuma Jr on the discovery by the Independent Police Investigation Directorate of the convicted criminal and criminal agent, Captain “KGB” TshabalalaMangaung’s vote buying spree of R50 million when Zuma secured a victory over then-presidential candidate Kgalema Motlanthe.

No mention of letter by former Chief of Criminal Intelligence Richard Mdluli, assuring Zuma that CI resources will be spent at the ANC’s 2007 Elective Conference in Polokwane.

This is not a “captured media” fiction. It is part of the sworn testimony to the Zondo Commission of Inquiry into State Capture, a field, unlike YouTube, where the evidence can and will be proven.

That is why Zuma so hated appearing before the commission.

Reverend Frank Chikane Who initially refused to be drawn to Duduzane’s allegations in Part 1 that Chikane had leaked Kate Mantso-Zuma’s suicide note to the media, made matters clear in an interview with SABC on May 9, 2020.

Duduzane had accused Chikane, although he referred to him not by name, but simply as “a partner,” of deliberately deleting a suicide note.

Duduzane’s twin sister, Duduzile, as well as Edward Zuma, another of Zuma’s sons, later joined the attack on Chikane, prompting her decision to speak.

Chikane recalled the deeply traumatic events of the day of Kate’s death in 2000 when she arrived at her home in Pretoria after she called him for having taken a cocktail of anti-malaria drugs and sleeping pills.

Kate Mansto was Zuma’s second wife and they had five children. They were married in 1982.

Duduzane had also been summoned to his mother’s house that day, as had Zuma’s other children, Edward and Mxolisi.

Kate was still alive when Chikane arrived and had asked to speak to him privately while waiting for an ambulance to arrive. Kate had directed one of her children, Chikane said, to a drawer containing the folded suicide note.

Mantso-Zuma, Chikane said, had ordered him to personally deliver the handwritten note to Zuma, which he then did after his death in the hospital.

The note is damning and it is clear that Zuma, as the then vice president of SA, would not have wanted it to be made public.

Kate had expressly excluded Zuma from her funeral and ordered that “my dear children, my maternal family, strictly attend. Of the Zumas, only Brother Mike and the entire Mzobe family.

He begged Zuma to “go back to his obligations” as a father and wished him “luck and success with the new Makoti and would advise him that the seat he will occupy is very, very, very hot.”

Zuma would soon marry his third wife, Nompumelelo Ntuli, later accused by Zuma in 2014 of poisoning him, resulting in his immediate exile to the outer banks of the Zumaverse.

Kate’s letter said: “I hope that if we meet again somewhere, but not as husband and wife, which I will not dare risk again due to the bitter and painful married life (24 years) to which I have gone through. “

Because Kate’s death was unnatural, a police investigation had been necessary. Chikane had been required by law to turn over the note to the police as part of the investigation. It is worth bearing in mind that the note was only made public in 2007, seven years after his death.

Chikane explained in her interview with SABC how Kate Mansto, born in Alexandra in September 1956, had been a CNA leader in her own right.

The Mantso family left Soweto in 1974 and moved to Mozambique. There Kate obtained a diploma in languages. He spoke almost all the official languages ​​of South Africa, as well as Portuguese, German, French and Ki-Swahili.

In 1976 Kate joined Mozambique’s airline Linhas Aéreas De Mozambique (LAM) and began an extensive career in the travel industry that culminated in her appointment as deputy station manager in Harare, a position she held until 1993.

In that role, Mantso had helped smuggle ANC cadres from South Africa into exile in Mozambique and elsewhere. His state funeral in 2000 was attended by great ANC figures, including Nelson Mandela, then President Thabo Mbeki, and his wife Zanele, Winnie Mandela, Govan Mbeki, and Tito Mboweni.

Chikane was visibly upset by Duduzane’s reworking of the suicide note narrative and the accusation that Chikane had “lied”. He said that the investigation file contained the facts, including an affidavit that he had deposed at the time.

In the series, Duduzane and Jacob Zuma return with regular monotony (that is why you need matches) to the key themes that have spanned the conversations; Zuma’s poisoning and how DD Mabuza, also poisoned, owed his life to the family that had taken him to Moscow for treatment in 2015.

There is also more to the ANC that father and son agreed to have lost their “ideological path” in the service of money.

The history of Zuma and Mabuza poisoning justifies a new visit for an attempt to contextualize the events.

In June 2014, Zuma was hospitalized in South Africa on suspicion of poisoning. The woman accused of doing so, Nompumelelo Ntuli Zuma, had already been asked to evacuate the President’s home in Nkandla in January of that year.

It had been the then Minister of State Security, David Mahlobo, who had arrived in Nkandla with a piece of paper and had whispered in Msholozi’s ear before Zuma summarily expelled Ntuli-Zuma from the complex with his three children.

The NPA later told Zuma’s lawyers that an investigation found no evidence that Ntuli-Zuma had poisoned him. Neither Zuma nor SSA bothered to file affidavits on the matter. He talks a lot.

In August 2014, a visibly sick and emaciated Zuma met with Russian President Vladimir Putin and in September 2014A secret R1 trillion intergovernmental agreement was signed with Rosatom in Vienna by then Energy Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson.

In October 2018, former Minister of Finance Nhlanla Nene He testified before the Zondo Commission of Inquiry that in 2015, at the annual summit of heads of state or governments of BRICS member states, he had discussed the nuclear deal with his Russian counterparts.

Nene told the commission that Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov, as well as his deputy, Sergei Shatalov, had told him that they were unaware of any apparent “nuclear deal” between the two countries.

The two Russian ministers had also admitted that “they had no real idea of ​​what it was about and were not involved in the discussions.”

This was a revelation, said Nene, who had surprised him, “because, if I signed something that had financial commitments from the Russian government, I would have expected my counterparts not only to be aware but also to play a role.”

You would think.

In July 2015, Nene and other cabinet ministers, including Joemat-Pettersson, attended a briefing with Zuma. Nene, he said, intended to brief Zuma on the summit “and his next one-on-one meeting with President Putin of Russia,” but Zuma had instead criticized him for failing to finalize the financial aspects of the proposed nuclear deal.

Zuma had told Nene that he was “not happy that he wasn’t doing what he was supposed to have done a long time ago so he could have something to present when he meets President Putin for his one-on-one meeting.”

It was Joemat-Pettersson, who then drafted a “one page” letter ready for Nene’s consideration and signature.

“It was a letter addressed to the Russian authorities. I can’t recall the exact detail of this letter, but I do remember that it was essentially providing a form of assurance to the Russian government about the nuclear program if the Russian government financed it. ”

Subsequently, a Superior Court of the Western Cape ruled that the state’s nuclear acquisition agreement had been illegal and unconstitutional and set it aside. In 2018 it was Cyril Ramaphosa who appointed DD Mabuza as special envoy sent to break the news to Vladimir Putin.

Zuma Jr occasionally deviates from the linchpins to offer a variety of views on President Cyril Ramaphosa and the NCC’s Covid-19 economic package and the government’s overall response to the Covid-19 pandemic. It was, said Zuma Jr, a “little copy and paste.”

There is no indication that the Zoom with Zuma The series is a finite project, but the season is expected to continue until Zuma has to rise from his chair in Nkandla and be brought to the Pietermaritzburg High Court to take his place with Thales on the bench. In his mind, he is undoubtedly still the victim of dire circumstances. DM