Problem with this story is it assumes Zuma is the sole problem. Despite all the charges against him, there is scant evidence that he took a huge amount of money for himself. Out of the arms deal, he allegedly was supposed to receive R500k per year and that dried up after 1 payment. Nkandla? That mainly benefited corruptly paid contractors – no doubt cronies. You could never get anything close to that kind of money back by selling the property. No? If you had a spare quarter-billion rand, would you buy it?

The real problem is that he has dirt on everyone else: the J Edgar Hoover effect.

Andrew Feinstein is convinced that the biggest beneficiary of the 1999 arms deal was ANC party funds. The party was near broke heading into the 1999 elections and suddenly was flush with money. Zuma has led a charmed life not because he stole so much but because OTHERS stole so much and he knows who they are.