Mr Zuma is a wily politician who has bounced back from worse scandals in the past, including charges of corruption (dropped on a technicality) and of rape (he was acquitted). A chastened Mr Zuma is already fighting back, giving newspaper interviews, going on walkabouts in poor townships and flying to Zimbabwe to try to end a deadlock in its power-sharing government. Everywhere he goes, crowds apparently adore him, keen to forgive his flaws. Asked about his future, Mr Zuma says he has “never defied the ANC”. If it wanted him to remain as leader, he would do so, he says self-defensively. He cannot be written off in a hurry.

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