TOM EATON: Want to damn someone, or a duo? Hire Tokyo the praise singer
Many a truth is told in hallucinatory essays, or in the case of the ANC, by accident
The press has lost some of its lustre in recent decades, and at the weekend as I read Tokyo Sexwale wax lyrical in a Sunday Times opinion piece, declaring that Cyril Ramaphosa and Paul Mashatile could form a “dynamic duo” that might rival Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki, I understood why someone might have the urge to crumple up a newspaper and fling it across the room.
I also understand why comments below the line and on social media tended towards outrage, asking why such a patently one-eyed and half-brained display of Ramaphilia had been published at all, with a few implying that the Times had briefly become a stooge disseminating ANC propaganda...
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