Sanity prevails in SA, despite the papal nature of succession politics
While Donald Trump’s America and much of the rest of the West regress, SA’s electorate is making increasingly informed decisions, writes Bryan Rostron
As we tip-toe gingerly into a new, looking-glass era, SA seems a relatively safe and sane place to be. After US President Donald Trump’s recent twitter spat with Meryl Streep, for example, his team had a spiritualist-style response. "Why is everything taken at face value?" complained Kellyanne Conway, Trump’s indefatigable mouthpiece and apologist. "You always want to go by what’s comes out of his mouth rather than look at what’s in his heart." Though Kellyanne Conway said this on CNN, she may well deny it. Trump and his squad constantly denied things said or done which, when in the US during the election, I’d seen the previous evening on TV. Mike Pence, now vice-president, would perform his disavowals sneeringly — but with a slight tightening of his nostrils, like those liveried flunkeys who used to shuffle after elephants in the circus ring to clear up the piles of dung left in their wake. If the US voters wanted entertainment, the next four years may be a long-running, can’t-beli...
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