STEPHEN GROOTES lost the plot when he failed to see the significance of his own comment - “He stalks off, surrounded by his guards who appear to have grown in number and ferocity in recent months. He issues a statement saying he’s going nowhere”.

He compounds that with his comment about about the role of the police and the army.  The army can be discounted as as a bunch of layabouts who were unable to look after themselves in the CAR but the police are the enforcement arm of the Party and take their orders from Zuma with legality and morality playing no part, as Marikana proves.

The key part of Zuma's muscle is in the VIP Protection Unit which in the last year gobbled up close to R2.1 billion for the theoretical protection of a handful of people.

When Zuma does refuse to go there is nobody left to stop him.