TOM EATON: Jettison the ANCient mariners with their Ever-Given promises
Even if Magashule is made to walk the plank, we’re still in the same boat with the same crew in the same silted canal
Separated by the entire length of a continent, the container ship Ever Given and the ANC had nothing to do with each other. And yet, for a day or two at least, they formed a beautiful transcontinental duality; the yin of efficiency and excellence, balanced against the yang of the ANC licking a hanky and trying to scrub the dried gravy off its pants.
On Sunday and Monday the dichotomy was absurdly clear. As teams of immensely skilled experts worked to dislodge the Ever Given from the silt of the Suez Canal, the national executive committee (NEC) of the ANC stared with vacant eyes at our half-submerged rowing-boat of a country and asked itself how water works, whether things ever sink upwards or if they always go downwards, and whether it should just set fire to the boat, sell the damp coal to Eskom and scarper to Dubai...
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