Today Zuma, tomorrow Trump

The mills of American justice grind even more slowly than those of the South African courts, but the time is coming when Trump will be charged with a serious offence. When that happens, he will do a Zuma, stringing it out as long as possible and then finally resorting to foment violence in the streets.

Though protesters came out in large numbers after former South African president Jacob Zuma, pictured in 2012, was jailed, Zuma’s future does not look bright, writes Gwynne Dyer. UN photograph by Mark Garten

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

July 15, 2021

LONDON, U.K.—Sooner or later ex-U.S. president Donald Trump is bound to be indicted for some crime. It doesn’t matter which—it could be a fraud or corruption charge, or a sexual offenc...

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