Lootocracy. That’s what we have in SA. Government of the looters. By the looters. For the looters. The scenes of criminality playing out in the nation’s capital city this week have nothing to with democracy. Neither do they have anything to do with delivering services to the people. Instead it’s one looter group vs another.It is a free for all. Tenderpreneurs masquerading as champions of democracy are at one another’s throats. The incumbents are fighting to defend their turf from the next bunch of looters. The rich coffers of the state are the fat new terrain of struggle. The pigs are still feeding at the trough.And some guys from Luthuli House think they can just put their own gang ahead of everyone else. Don’t they know such lucrative markets are worth defending with everything at one’s disposal?It’s a big boys’ game. There are no rules. Only the bullies survive. Burn a much-needed municipal building here, a school there, and the odd bus on the next street.It’s enough to send a me...
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