CHRIS ROPER: Inside the cult of the Nkandla tea party
Dudu Zuma-Sambudla is Jacob Zuma’s very own Twitter hagiographer. All who join the former president for tea at Nkandla are similarly cast as heroes and martyrs
11 March 2021 - 05:00
In these trying pandemic times, I’ve been finding a lot of spiritual solace in the sayings of Jacob Zuma’s daughter, Dudu Zuma-Sambudla. Well, not sayings, exactly. Tweets. And not spiritual solace as such, more like that feeling of existential dread you get when you realise that there is no meaning in the world and everything is pointless.
Jean-Paul Sartre, that poster boy for existentialism, called this "nausea" — the feeling you get when you realise that everything is irrational, contingent and unpredictable, and that everything you thought you knew about your existence in the world is a lie...
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