Enemy of the people: How Jacob Zuma stole South Africa and how the people fought back - Adriaan Basson & Pieter du Toit

He swore to serve the people, but Jacob Zuma robbed us blind. 

Enemy of the People is the first definitive account of Zuma's catastrophic misrule, offering eyewitness descriptions and cogent analysis of how South Africa was brought to its knees - and how the people fought back.

When Jacob Zuma took over the leadership of the ANC in December 2007, he inherited a country  whose economy was growing and a party that had the support of two-thirds of the electorate. Today, South Africa is caught in the grip of state capture, the economy is moribund and a fractured ANC is staring down the barrel of defeat at the 2019 elections. How did we get here?

Zuma ruthlessly brought his party to heel, subduing his political opponents. Then he built a patronage network of family, friends and business associates - powerful, corruptible political tenderpreneurs - who stopped at nothing to take control of lucrative state institutions and enterprises. State capture became Zuma's brand: a maze of corruption so far-reaching that it has replaced many parts of government, causing irreparable damage.

But it hasn't all gone Zuma's way. In a new era of activism, concerned citizens from all walks of life have stepped forward to join the campaign to save South Africa.

As a deeply divided ANC squares off for the party's elective conference in December, which will determine the political-economic trajectory of the country, award-winning journalists Adriaan Basson and Pieter du Toit offer an insightful, up-to the-minute account of the Zuma era.