PALI LEHOHLA | So much self-praise, so little fanfare for Eskom at the big 100

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PALI LEHOHLA | So much self-praise, so little fanfare for Eskom at the big 100
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If anything, Andre de Ruyter’s ‘Truth to Power’ reads like an obituary of Eskom.

In Sesotho idioms are crucial to shaping behaviour. One such is “Ngoana khoale ‘na o ipolela motho o motle a boleloa ke batho” — “self-praise is no recommendation”. Idi Amin of Uganda once said of Tanzania’s Mwalimu Julius Nyerere on Radio Kampala: “If he were a woman, I would marry him,” and challenged Nyerere to a fight in the boxing ring. Amin was once the heavyweight champion of Uganda. Mwalimu had long dismissed Idi Amin as an incorrigible buffoon.

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