TOM EATON: Better the devil you know than the prophet you don’t
New party leader Mogoeng Mogoeng has a showman’s feel for dramatic bits of chapter and verse, a gift Mmusi Maimane lacks
17 October 2022 - 19:05
At first glance, launching a new religious party in SA, as former chief justice Mogoeng Mogoeng did at the weekend, or launching one with a religious analogy, as Mmusi Maimane did a few weeks ago, seems unwise.
Not that I’m incurious about some of the possibilities of Mogoeng’s new All African Alliance Movement, or “AAAM”, which is the noise a secularist might make while trying to explain how such a party could exist in a modern republic...
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