MICHAEL MORRIS: Ramaphosa’s take on BEE is ‘off nominal’ at best, wrong at worst
President sounds like a SpaceX spin doctor when he dodges questions about failed ANC policies
02 June 2025 - 05:00
UPDATED 03 June 2025 - 09:57
Perhaps because I am not a rocket scientist, I heard for the first time only last week the surely prizeworthy euphemism that was relied on by one of the two brimmingly unalarmed SpaceX functionaries to whom it fell to finesse the latest test-flight failure.
Blinking forgivingly at the camera as the wayward rocket careened towards the Indian Ocean, she coolly reassured us of the aborted flight that “we do plan for if something goes a little bit off nominal”. ..
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