JABULANI SIKHAKHANE: Simelane should look to the future and apologise for the past
Will justice & constitutional development minister go down fighting in the VBS scandal?
09 October 2024 - 05:00
Most politicians facing a crisis spend a lot of time fighting the past instead of preparing for a future. In the end they destroy a bridge to the future. Thembisile Simelane is the most recent example of this.
Politicians seem to be borrowing a lyric from the late Chicago singer-songwriter and advertising copywriter Oscar Brown Jnr’s tune Hum Drum Blues. Part of the lyric goes: “Fightin’ the future and mad at the past!”..
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