GARETH VAN ONSELEN: The DA’s poo protester hypocrisy

WHEN the ANC actually fires someone, you pay attention. So disinclined is the party ever to take meaningful action against its many and various ethical offenders that when it does, you know they must have messed up, big time. In the case of Loyiso Nkohla, it was for distributing human excrement around the metro in 2013, among other deplorable things (most of which revolved around an explicit plan to make the city "ungovernable"). And the list is fairly extensive, inciting violence, rampaging through the CBD, land invasions, looting, damage to property and just a general disdain for the rule of law. In expelling Nkohla from the party in 2014, the ANC’s disciplinary committee found: "The charges on which the respondents had been found guilty are of a very serious nature as it involves insubordination, insolent conduct and, very likely, criminality." That is the kind of no-nonsense language those who still hold out for an ANC reawaking dream about. It is, what they call in the business...