In the orgy of corruption, official opposition sounds more like castrated men who scream & shout about what is happening, rather than able leaders who are ready to take over. But, if ever there was a time to be hopeful, it is now, writes Muzi Kuzwayo
As the Sandton cityscape touches the heavens above, factories are closing down below. Lawyers are making all the money. According to The Economist, nearly 4% of the world’s unemployed are South African.
Partisanship has gone in the way of common sense and vulgarity is fast reaching the levels preceding the black-on-black violence of the 1990s. The rhetoric is causing a polemic brain freeze, so much so that I wonder if South Africa will ever become a non-racial society. Our politicians today lack what art critic Hilton Kramer called persuasive theory. They are unable to tell us something that we need to urgently know and their converts, who masquerade as journalists, keep chanting their praises instead of asking the urgent questions.
Rightfully or otherwise, right now, in the eyes of many, both locally and internationally, the heir to Ramaphosa’s presidency is portrayed as the devil himself.
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