To cure ourselves, first we must confront the lies we tell ourselves
Jacob Zuma is not going anywhere. I was reminded of this reality as I read Eddie S Glaude Jr’s The New York Times best-seller. He writes about Donald Trump:
“We make him wholly bad in order to protect our innocence. He is made to bear the burdens of all our sins, when he is in fact a clear reflection of who we actually are … panic ensues when crises reveal the truth, because we are snatched from our fantasies and forced to confront who we really are. Trump is us, or better, Trump is you.”didn’t defy the courts on his own. We allowed him to. We made excuses for him.Zuma didn’t open the Estcourt prison gates.
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