CHRIS THURMAN: Fears of collateral damage from Shakespearean political tragedy lend poignancy to Bystanders

I don’t know about you, but the absurd daily pageant of political-criminal manoeuvring in SA has turned me into a passive spectator. At the very moment that I should be most driven to action, to critique, to protest, I am instead paralysed by the bizarre, disorienting twists and turns of our national plot – it’s like watching a cross between a complex Shakespearean history play, a pantomime and a soap opera.