JONATHAN JANSEN: Expect the nation to follow Parliament's violent example
'This is what happens when an utterly corrupt and contemptuous leader fails to step down. After all, the Constitutional Court found that the president had failed to uphold the laws of the land'
NOW that the heat has subsided, the punches have been thrown, and sensitive parts of the anatomy have been squeezed, let‘s take another look at Thursday February 9 2017, another day of ignominy inside the South African parliament. Let's go behind the outrage of the opposition and dire warnings of a constitutional crisis. Let's forego for a moment the varied interpretations of the presidential giggle or even trying to read the mind of the previous president, so ingloriously removed from office, as he looked down — physically and otherwise — on the raucous proceedings beneath him. Let's even forget this parade of feathers where the peacocks strut out with their spouses dripping in ostentatious wealth just ahead of a ritualised speech on the redemption of the poor; here surely is a target for decolonisation. But put those concerns aside for the moment and let's take another look.
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