Farcical ANC black ops — my story of the year so far
BRUCE'S LIST: ANC cooks up Twitter plot, gets egg on its face
Given the ruling party’s inability to do anything properly, a secret scheme it hatched to plant fake news from a fake site failed
Bruce’s List: A guide to informed reads. Oooh, I just love this story. It has made my day. As my name and Ferial Haffajee’s and Johann Rupert’s and Alec Hogg’s get drawn into a dirty little Twitter plot by the Zuptas (I need to find a way to work Salim Essa’s name into that — he is much more central to state capture than we give him credit for) to insult us, it turns out that not only is the White House being advised now by a social media manipulator (Steve Bannon) and not only did the Russians tweak the US presidential elections Donald Trump’s way, but our very own ANC tried the same thing in last year’s local government elections. And, given the ANC’s inability to do just about anything properly, a secret plot it hatched to plant fake news from a fake site failed (see the results) but the aftermath is proving particularly nasty. You have to read this — it is littered with the names of ANC social media darlings, heavies and butterflies. Inevitably, an ANC plot cooked up in the offi...
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