TWEET OF THE WEEK
GARETH VAN ONSELEN: Puppet politics
Labelling someone a puppet is an all-purpose explanation and, for the most part, the refuge of the lazy and the ignorant
Welcome to Tweet of the Week. Every Friday, I 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 @FloydShivambu for: "Only the politically gullible/naive will think that Malusi’s view on Denel’s Gupta contract entails he’s against them. He’s still a puppet."Profile: Floyd Shivambu is the EFF’s deputy president and an MP. His Twitter bio describes him as someone who "believes in dialectical materialism and labour theory of value." Also as "heterodox". He has about 257,000 followers on Twitter. Citation: For someone who describes himself as heterodox, Shivambu spends an awful lot of time trying to reinforce orthodoxy. His tweet this week was a response to finance minister Malusi Gigaba’s decision to terminate a contact from which the Gupta family was s...
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