South Africans have become inured to potholes that are never filled, to a murder rate that keeps climbing, to a government that doesn’t work, and to politicians behaving badly.

With President Cyril Ramaphosa besieged over Phala Phala, allegations of sexual harassment swirling around finance minister Enoch Godongwana, and DA leader John Steenhuisen calling his former wife “roadkill” on air, it’s a wonder anyone in SA can bear to read a newspaper anymore...

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