TWEET OF THE WEEK
GARETH VAN ONSELEN: Ramaphosa the disgrace
Welcome to Tweet of the Week. Every Friday I will use this column to hand out an award to one person who has tweeted something of significance. There are no strict rules, only that the tweet in question must offer an important insight, define a debate (notorious or otherwise) or mark an occasion. This week the Tweet of the Week goes to @DPRamaphosa for:"Tune in now, as the Deputy President answers questions at the National Assembly … Parliament channel: 408" Profile: @DPRamaphosa is the official Twitter account for Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa. It has some 4,500 followers. Citation: When President Jacob Zuma has been allowed to answer questions in the National Assembly, without proceedings devolving into chaos, he rarely answers them in the first place. Evasion, in politics, is something of an art form, albeit an ignoble one. Everyone does it. But Zuma brought his own special brand of disdain and bumbling incoherence to proceedings. When he wasn’t forgetting his own nine-point p...
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