AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER A defiant Jacob Zuma, the former president of South Africa, has shown the proverbial middle finger to the country’s Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng and rejected, as a sham and a political gimmick, a directive that he must suggest a suitable punishment in the case he is found guilty of contempt of the Constitutional Court.  Mogoeng issued the directive to Zuma who faces charges of failing to appear before the Zondo judicial commission into state capture and for defying the Constitutional Court.The chief justice directed Zuma to file an affidavit of no longer than 15 pages. Zuma responded…