IN PUBLICATIONS like this one, we are told each and every day that a battle is raging. On one side are those fighting to save the integrity of public institutions — the Pravin Gordhans and Thuli Madonselas of the world. On the other side are the corrupt.But the provincial politicians and business people we are referring to obviously don’t describe themselves as corrupt. That is our take on what they do. Nor are they the sort of people who write for newspapers like this one. Our op-ed pages host a dialogue of the right-minded.What might a signed-up member of "the corrupt" say in a column on these pages? Perhaps something like this: "I celebrated freedom in 1994 as heartily as anyone, but by the end of the millennium, I was feeling sick to my stomach. The very worst of history was repeating itself."Since the beginning, the African National Congress (ANC) has called itself the representative of African people. But, actually, its leaders and its followers have always lived on different ...
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