Joburg, with its heroically horrible political leadership, is managing to run a zoo. It is the 122nd birthday of the Joburg Zoo – and we should be shouting this from the rooftops. Joburg Zoo actually worksBut when you walk into the Joburg Zoo, everything seems to work. Zoo getting upgradesThe good news is the zoo is renovating the cage and preparing for more gorillas. Smooth operationAnd yet Joburg, with its heroically horrible political leadership, is managing to run a zoo – or at least not run it into the ground.