EDITOR’S LUNCHBOX: Is Herman Mashaba SA’s Donald Trump?
Pretoria was apparently not chuffed at the thought of Joel Pollak, ‘former Tony Leon speechwriter turned hard-right Trumpian imbongi’, as US ambassador
Stories of Note Bytes from the digital world When the government appointed former Standard Bank executive Mark Barnes, he became the South African Post Office’s seventh CEO in just more than 10 years. In that decade, things had gone from bad, to appalling, to life-threatening. Johannesburg’s new mayor Herman Mashaba "often plays on the fears that migrants are taking over our economy", said Jacob van Garderen, the national director of Lawyers for Human Rights. "He can be likened to [US President Donald] Trump," he said. "They play off the same play book." In My Opinion Matters of debate Breitbart editor-at-large Joel Pollak is no longer favoured as a likely US ambassador to SA. "Rumour has it Pretoria was unenthusiastic about granting agreement to this former Tony Leon speechwriter turned hard-right Trumpian imbongi," writes Simon Barber. Today’s Trustee editor Allan Greenblo unfortunately stoops to dumb blond jokes in criticising Sygnia CEO Magda Wierzycka’s attack on Allan Gray for...
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