TOM EATON: Why I’m jealous of Ramaphosa’s speechwriters
31 January 2022 - 20:07
In 10 days President Cyril Ramaphosa will deliver his state of the nation address, which means that even now his writers are hard at work crafting a speech that doesn’t draw too much attention to the fact that it’s being delivered in Cape Town’s city hall because parliament got set on fire.
Why parliament got set on fire, of course, is still being weighed up by the courts, which is one of the reasons I’m hesitant to name it as a deliberate act of political violence. The other reason is that I know my country...
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