WELCOME to Tweet of the Week. Every Friday I will use this column to hand out an award to one person who has tweeted something of significance. There are no strict rules, only that the tweet in question must offer an important insight, define a debate (notorious or otherwise) or mark an occasion. This week the Tweet of the Week goes to@EsethuHasane for: “ANC has to succumb and not celebrate its 161 municipalities win vs DA’s 19 to show humility for where it has failed.” Profile: Esethu Hasane is the spokesman for Minister of Sport and Recreation Fikile Mbalula. His profile states that he was also selected as one of the Mail & Guardian’s Top 200 Young South Africans. He has just over 15k followers on Twitter.Citation: The apple does not fall far from the tree, the saying goes, and so it is with Hasane, whose political father figure, Mbalula, uses Twitter like a fading soap opera star uses the B-grade talk show circuit to prop up their dying career. Real fame eludes them, but in the ...
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