Violence in South Africa has further disrupted among other things the supply of oxygen and medicines to hospitals where Covd-19 patients are admitted. The rioting is also being linked to people’s pent-up anger over lack of economic progress, widespread corruption and gross Covid-19 mismanagement. His sentencing has not only thrown South Africa in chaos but also brought out glaring inequality between the black and the white community. He refused to cooperate and accepted a jail term instead of presenting documents before the inquiry panel. Now the case and the corruption charges have come back to hunt and haunt Jacob Zuma. SA captains fear ICC ban, apex body says no intervention as of now IMAGE: South Africa may not been able to take part in the ICC T20 World Cup. The Gupta Brothers soon fled to Dubai, the UAE. So, it forced Jacob Zuma to step down as South Africa’s president. In February 2018, the Opposition brought a no-confidence motion against Jacob Zuma. The ANC feared that it would suffer in the next national polls. Protests were also happening in the aftermath of the electoral setbacks that the African National Congress (ANC) had in the local body polls in 2016. The leaked emails led to massive protests against Jacob Zuma and the Gupta family, who had hurt the South African sentiments in 2013 by landing a plane carrying the guests for their daughter’s wedding at a military airbase reserved only for the head of state. In 2017, about 1 lakh emails were leaked establishing how deeply the Gupta Brothers influenced the Jacob Zuma government. The Guptas allegedly also promised to pay 600 million rands.Īround the same time, former Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan alleged that he held the Gupta Brothers responsible for having been fired from the Jacob Zuma government. In 2016, South Africa saw a major political controversy over allegations that the Gupta Brothers had promised the then deputy finance minister an elevation to the post of the finance minister if he advanced their business interests.
They instantly became so bonded that a term, Zupta was coined for them by their critics. The Gupta Brothers became close to Jacob Zuma, it is said, after a meeting between him and Atul Gupta at a Sahara Computer event around 2015-16. They expanded their business network from computers to air travel, energy, mining, technology and media.
Their business flourished and they developed political connections. They discovered that South Africa had surprisingly no red tape in bureaucracy especially compared to India. Some reports say the Guptas initially sold shoes from their car in South Africa but soon set up a company called Sahara Computers. The eldest of the brothers, Atul Gupta is said to have gone to South Africa in 1993, when the country was opening up to the world after the end of apartheid. The Gupta Brothers hail from Saharanpur in western Uttar Pradesh, where they had a small family business. The Gupta Brothers fled South Africa after Jacob Zuma was forced to step down in 2018. The Gupta Brothers were once so influential that it was alleged that they decided the policies of the Jacob Zuma government. A struggle of major consequence seems in the offing, but few are prepared to say when it will reach its peak, how long it will last, or how deeply it will rend the continent.The charge is that in association with the Gupta Brothers, Jacob Zuma effected “state capture” - siphoning off of state assets. Southern Rhodesia is viewed as a tinderbox. To stem the rising tide, Portuguese and South African authorities have placed their territories on a war or near-war footing. “Violence has always been necessary in southern Africa,” says a South West African, “but previously conditions for it were lacking.” These observations, made by heads of African independence movements in recent weeks, illustrate the current grim mood of nationalists in that region. “We have no lever but violence,” says a Mozambique African. “We know we are embarking on a dangerous course,” says a South African. “Violence must come and the peoples of the world will be drawn into the struggle,” says a black Southern Rhodesian. Recent months have seen a new drift toward violence. Termination of white rule in its last strongholds on the continent dominates the thoughts of participants in the African summit conference now in progress at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and is a continuing theme in halls of the United Nations. Long a cauldron of racial animosities and political and economic inequities, white-ruled southern Africa is bubbling dangerously in 1963, bringing new concern to world capitals.
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