TWEET OF THE WEEK: What word best describes SA?
In a country obsessed with identity, is there one word or phrase that can describe SA?
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 @gussilber? for:"South Africa has now officially become a mediocracy. A form of government in which mediocrity rules." Profile: Gus Silber is a doyen of South African journalism and godfather of South African Twitter. His Twitter bio describes him as someone who likes to "play with words, and sometimes work with them too". He has 106k followers on Twitter. Citation: This week’s Tweet of the Week is from virtual vault and all the way back in 2015. But it captured the mood back then, as the national decline started to become more manifestly obvious. Since then, a great many other words and phrases have been used to describe the country and its state. Th...
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