COMMENTARY from THE ‘BITTA’ TRUTH —-Holness, Zuma and the Politics of State Capture: Is Jamaica Repeating South Africa’s Mistakes?

From miaminorris: "Jamaica’s political debate has entered dangerous territory. What begins as disputes over financial declarations, oversight bodies, and judicial reviews increasingly raises larger questions about democratic erosion and the gradual weakening of institutional accountability. In this provocative comparative analysis, Dennis A. Minott, PhD examines the unsettling parallels between Prime Minister Andrew Holness and former South African President Jacob Zuma — not as identical political figures, but as leaders accused of treating oversight institutions as obstacles rather than safeguards of democracy.

Drawing from the Zuma-era “State Capture” crisis in South Africa, the article explores how democratic decline rarely arrives dramatically. Instead, it advances quietly through legal manoeuvres, loyalist appointments, pressure on accountability agencies, and the normalization of institutional warfare against watchdog bodies. The piece challenges Jamaicans to consider whether the country is witnessing the early architecture of a governance model South Africans know all too well."

https://open.substack.com/pub/sulfabittas/p/holness-zuma-and-the-bizarre-politics?r=2jew3w&utm_medium=ios