Steven Friedman’s column indicts the “national debate” for steering the Covid-19 debate into the corruption quagmire (New ways are needed to deal with deeply entrenched corruption (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/columnists/2020-08-04-steven-friedman-new-ways-are-needed-to-deal-with-deeply-entrenched-corruption/), August 4).

He says it’s because it is more comfortable to be indignant. Then he performs precisely the same manoeuvre: he takes it into the “skewed economy” debate, for that is where he is most comfortable...

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