ANN CROTTY: Meet Hlaudi, the deathless villain
What are the chances that Motsoeneng will resurface?
There’s death and taxes. And then for real certainty there is the SABC television licence fee. In an era when cryogenics enables some people to trick death and tax havens provide an escape for millions of enormously wealthy people, there’s something almost comforting about the unrelenting certainty of an SABC fee. Not even death or poverty ensures relief. A friend inherited his TV licence obligation; it’s not in his name, but it knows where he lives and eventually it will track him down with something more than a faux-threatening “final demand”. For years he ignored the reminders and threats, mainly because he didn’t own a television, but also because he knew how wretched SABC’s fare was. It wasn’t the 90% local content music he minded so much as the news programmes, so many of which were underpinned by appallingly dull ANC propaganda. The SABC, it seems, had learnt nothing from the days it spouted National Party propaganda. Then his kind landlord provided him with free access to DS...
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