So, is Jacob Zuma going to face corruption charges or not? The possibility certainly is still strong, though the ANC has vowed to fight any such reinstatement of graft accusations against their presumed future presidential candidate.
But what stands out most in the latest salvos in this increasingly byzantine drama is the absolutely blistering and unequivocal Supreme Court response to Judge Christopher Nicholson and his findings of political interference on the part of Zuma's opponents, most notably Thabo Mbeki. Nicholson's findings provided the excuse for Mbeki's political enemies to orchestrate his ouster from the presidency. On Mbeki's part this news has to come as a moral, if Pyhrric, victory. Nicholson, meanwhile, may want to start updating his curriculum vita.