CHRIS ROPER: Unmasking the faux revolutionaries
The group We are More may masquerade as a movement of social conscience. In reality it’s a conflagration of anti-mask, xenophobic, anti-science, anti-Semitic and racist sentiment
11 February 2021 - 05:00
Walking to work in the Cape Town CBD on the one day in the week that I treat myself to a morning in the physical office, I came across a thin, tattered man hunched in the entrance of an empty shop, bleeding from the ear and sucking hopelessly on a shredded joint. When I asked him — stupid question, I know — whether he was OK, he told me to f-off.
I found a city improvement district officer, pointed out the man, and asked him to get medical help. And then I walked on, passing the shuttered restaurants, skirting the occasional miasmas of urine...
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