Politicians! You really can’t trust them. They will discard you faster than you can say "I have voted!" Within hours of voting stations closing on Wednesday, former DA leader Helen Zille was on Twitter, waging war on those young guns from the #FeesMustFall movement. Zille showed her style of leadership by tweeting that because the Fallists said they didn’t feel too comfortable at the University of Cape Town then they should not get state funding for their studies.Eh? Is that Donald Trump or PW Botha or Idi Amin I spy under that steely smile? Are we to infer that under a Zille presidency we would be deprived of some state function because we do not agree with her on something?Imagine if it was Jacob Zuma saying that. Zille would be jumping up and down.Did Zille care? She had got our votes in the morning and is now free to offend us as much as she likes for the next three years, when she will come knocking at our doors again.Oh, then there’s ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe. As th...
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