Our 'political leaders' have not learnt from history and can offer nothing original to help the country, writes justicemalala.
The tragedy of SA is that so little we have done here, politically, is original. From state capture to xenophobia, from petty corruption to populist personality cults, it’s all been done before on our continent and elsewhere. The political innovation of the early 1990s has all gone up in a puff.
It would be refreshing if the people pushing our country to the brink were doing so with some level of originality, but sadly that is not the case. It is all distressingly familiar...A subscription helps you enjoy the best of our business content every day along with benefits such as articles from our international business news partners; ProfileData financial data; and digital access to the Sunday Times and Sunday Times Daily.