NICOLE FRITZ: Why we cannot become nonchalant about Mkhwebane’s goings-on
Indifference to the public protector’s actions would be the like a shoulder shrug at some of the more insidious distortions infecting SA today
My husband says I shouldn’t write about the public protector; that it is like writing about Donald Trump. I think I know what he means: there is nothing to do but gawk and gape at the sordid spectacle; there is no fine, calibrated analysis to be undertaken; no textured insights to be drawn.
But without commenting on Trump how would you understand the US today? Similarly, an indifference to the public protector’s goings-on would be the equivalent of a shoulder shrug at some of the more insidious distortions infecting SA today. And while there might be nothing particularly new or insightful to say, the risk we face — awash in a tidal wave of constant damning revelation — is to forget the revelations that came before...
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