Given his recent confessions of unemployability - which appear not to have dampened his ambitions for the presidency (anyone else spot a contradiction here?) - it appears that he's cast himself as a victim of some Vendetta or other... though the Cow is struggling to understand how failure to live within ones means translates as a conspiracy.
Gramsci wasn't much help in explaining, either. In fact, he was fuming against something altogether else. "Why are taxpayers putting up with it?" he demanded. "Not only are they paying for the State's less-than-optimally-competent legal team to prosecute, they're now footing the bill for the accused's defence, too! All of which comes at a considerable price tag - it's even bankrupted Shabir Shaik!"
"Which means," sighed the Cow, "we're paying for it three times. Remember where Shaik's money came from originally..."
Gramsci paled. "You're right," he muttered. "I'm beginning to think it is all a conspiracy. Only, the ANC succession war is only a side-show. The _real_ conspiracy is against the South African taxpayer, and the real beneficiaries are the lawyers!"
And, perhaps, a couple of second-hand corvette salesmen...