STATE CAPTURE
SA’s coup has already taken place at the hands of racist Gupta family
A foreign family has bought SA. They run it as a private concern, not unlike some giant spaza shop, and are subject to few regulations. If questioned about irregularities, they can simply buy off most officials. So, when ANC MPs, faced with a secret ballot in the recent no-confidence motion, frothed about threats of "regime change", they were closing their eyes, and ears, to the fact that regime change has already been engineered without any vote at all. The Guptas have taken over. They instruct the president which ministers to hire or fire and suborn bureaucrats to award them colossal loans and fishy tenders. Thus shrill ANC claims of white monopoly or foreign agent-inspired plans for regime change were pitifully threadbare – until the DA swiftly gifted the hapless government hacks a glittering gift. In the parallel universe now inhabited by many ANC MPs, calling for the dissolution of Parliament merely fuelled the "regime change" narrative. The DA has never grasped Napoleon’s shre...
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