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JUSTICE MALALA: Asleep at the wheel
Despite the turmoil in the country, Jacob Zuma is sleeping soundly. As is most of Mpumalanga, it seems. Luckily, a small country inn in Waterval Onder is open to offer victuals to the hungry traveller
So how was your Freedom Day? I hope you enjoyed it, what with SA fraying at the edges and everyone seeming to say that defeating apartheid was not a win.I mean, guys, how are we expected to grow the economy when we can’t all see that 1994 was a seminal moment, whether you are EFF, DA or just someone who has found some validation on Twitter? But maybe people expected that in 1994, or in the 23 years after that, the legacy of 300 years of racial discrimination would be wiped away. I don’t know whether to say we read history badly or we’re dumber than we thought.On the eve of Freedom Day his nuclear deal was given a whipping by the courts. This means he has to do some serious explaining to the Russians about how exactly they thought they had nuclear build in the bag and now some court and NGOs have reversed it. And all along they thought this was a nice regular banana republic. Oh, and Gwede Mantashe, the president’s strongman at the ANC’s head office, said last week that the president...
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