LETTER: The people’s bae responds to Peter Bruce’s claims of another SA miracle
A few weeks ago Business Day editor-at-large Peter Bruce expressed a wish for the obliteration of the opposition (Is it time for Ramaphosa to talk to Malema?, February 8). He asked if it is not time for the commander-in-chief and the EFF to return (from the cold) to the ANC, seeing that President Cyril Ramaphosa has a lot to offer on land, education and public health. Bruce is one of several business-friendly writers who see the rise of Ramaphosa as a direct threat to the opposition. He was attempting a response to a critique the commander-in-chief levelled against him during an EFF presser, in which he compared Bruce to Jimmy Manyi in relation to the Guptas-Jacob Zuma. What Manyi did was engage in uncritical sanitising defence and promotion of Zuma, at the centre of which were distortions of history. This is the case with Bruce in relation to Ramaphosa, particularly in his distortion of our very recent history. In another piece, Bruce attributes the recall of Zuma to a miracle (Las...
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