EDITOR’S LUNCHBOX: Like dog poo to a shoe, the ANC top six stick together
Stories of note Bytes from the digital world Predictably, like proverbial dog poo to a shoe, the ANC’s big six decided to stick together. "I have never attacked a colleague in public. I am going to break that now‚" former finance minister Pravin Gordhan said, chastising Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini for the manner in which she brought anxiety to millions of social grants recipients. In my opinion Matters of debate Just as various green shoots suggested that the worst of SA’s economic contraction was over, President Jacob Zuma decided to emulate PW Botha’s infamous Rubicon speech. The only redeeming aspect of Botha’s rant was that personal monetary gain was not among his motivating factors. "Our corrupt governing elite wants to avoid this debate [on colonialism] at all costs. It desperately needs to fan the narrative of past pain to avoid accountability for its current failures. It has found scapegoats in ‘whiteness’ in general, and ‘white monopoly capital’ in particu...
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