Like every other ‘Cyrilist’, Peter Bruce is in denial
‘Bruce ... wrote that English is Ramaphosa’s ‘second language’. All parties should remember how degrading a Bruce compliment can be’
Business Day columnist and former editor Peter Bruce claims to have voted for the DA repeatedly and now, in his Business Day column (Divided DA should tell voters what its policies are to avoid losing ground in elections, December 13), threatens to withdraw support unless the DA votes with the president to amend the Bill of Rights. The DA might thank him if they consider the effect he has on his chosen “allies”. Bruce enjoyed a high profile last year as the foremost champion of Jacques Pauw’s book, The President’s Keepers, and it is in this context that I came across him first. Pauw’s book was sadly mis-sold. It’s power lay not so much in revelation as in compiling a bigger picture than any newspaper exposé previously allowed. Emerging from that picture were two almost oxymoronic facts. First, almost every clutch of baddies and every redoubt of goodies were multi-racial. The rainbow cut right across the world of organised crime. Second, in Pauw’s words, the “first row” of the keeper...
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