As the curtains draw ever so slowly shut on JZ’s time as president, and a nation readies to rejoice, the extent of his ineptitude and corruptness continues to amaze.

Take for example the position of the country’s national police commissioner, a rather important job considering this country’s relationship with crime.

The job, now occupied by General Khehla Sitole, was wide open back in August of last year. On Women’s Day, August 9, JZ sought to rectify that by announcing that the job was going to Leanne Williams.

Here comes the problem – Leanne has zero experience. Times LIVE below:

[She] boasts three degrees in banking and financial management but absolutely no experience in policing, was to be South Africa’s No1 crime fighter.

He [Zuma] even wanted to skip the interview process, sources said.

South Africa was only saved from Williams being the new top cop by Zuma’s colleagues’ insistence that she undergo a formal vetting process, which she failed.

The next question one has to ask is why he would be so keen to rush this one through, foregoing all of the usual procedures. That one is easy enough:

She has also been associated with ex-convicts Gayton McKenzie and Kenny Kunene, who are said to be close to Zuma…

Sources told the Sunday Times that Zuma’s allies feared Williams’s appointment would give control of the police to McKenzie and Kunene. “We had just saved him from a motion of no confidence in parliament and then he wanted to appoint this woman. That was not only going to affect him but embarrass the ANC,” said one cabinet member…

According to another source, officials in the Presidency were told to get Williams’s CV ready but no one had a clue who she was. It was during that process that officials discovered her links to McKenzie.