MICHAEL MORRIS: Uncivilised conduct now ordinary and acceptable
The deputy president should have promptly signalled his intolerance of the savage treatment of citizens
17 July 2023 - 05:03
SA proved itself once again to be a country of diminishing surprises on Friday when we learnt that, as former president Jacob Zuma hadn’t been “feeling well” earlier in the week, he had — what else could he have done? — flown to Russia to get medical attention.
Zuma’s departure seemed distinctly nick-of-time-ish, given Thursday’s Constitutional Court ruling that the former president must go back to prison. Who’s to say fate is no friend?..
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