A few years ago a young man stood up in front of parliament and the whole of SA and told us Jacob Zuma was a dictator on a par with Idi Amin who would end up killing members of his own party in a desperate bid to stay out of prison. 

“The reason Africa is referred to as a dark continent,” he proclaimed, “is because we’ve got postcolonial disasters, impostors, thugs, criminals who by coincidence, accident or by design find themselves occupying the highest political office in their land.” ..

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