PETER BRUCE: No toilet paper left to wipe away Venezuela’s ideologies
What’s Left? Ace, Tony and the ANC paragons of virtue visit Venezuela in solidarity. But poverty, not inequality, is the problem
I’ve been wanting to write about my irritations regarding the level to which “inequality” has been elevated in our national debate and debates around the world but I could never find a hook on which to hang my little opinion. Well, I found one on Sunday, on a TV show which you should all tune into on eNCA at 9am on Sunday mornings. It’s called The Fix, and is hosted by Karima Brown and myself. Being of a slightly, barely noticeable really, Left-leaning persuasion, Brown invited the Venezuelan ambassador to SA onto the show yesterday, forcing me to read up on the Venezuelan crisis. A delegation of ANC leaders had visited Venezuela last week. A sort of solidarity visit. I saw a photo on social media of Tony Yengeni and a group of comrades standing grimacing with Venezuela’s revolutionary leader, Nicolas Maduro. Now, we all know Venezuela is in crisis. There’s a struggle for power between Maduro and a pretender. There is untold economic hardship. US pressure for regime change is now pa...
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