ON THE WATER: Z-word does the P-word while we wait for the C-word
The Z-word entity was not protecting Parliament or democracy against a coup attempt — he was the coup, writes Neels Blom
The sight of a military deployment in the parliamentary precinct in Cape Town on Thursday outraged the commentariat across the ideological spectrum, and rightly so. But nowhere on their pages is there a mention of the C-word, or the P-word, for that matter. What went wrong? Earlier last week, after the news broke of the decree by the commander-in-chief for 441 armed soldiers to help maintain law and order during the state of the nation address, Schwätzer everywhere bristled with excitement in a haze of vaped nicotine, but nowhere in any substance abuse area did anyone dare speak the C-word. Surely he-who-must-not-be-named could not possibly be deploying the army in anticipation of a coup d’état? The EFF is sartorially underequipped to pull off such a stunt and the namby-pamby, if litigious, DA would blanche at the suggestion. The rest, well, they are hardly more than authoritarian dictatorships in waiting (for a coalition offer, perhaps). The chatterers were right — there was no cou...
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