COOKING UP A STORM
JUSTICE MALALA: White monopoly capital behind Cape storms. Really?
Patient customers and excellent food at Thai restaurant help to dispel indigestion after outburst about Cape storms and white monopoly capital
Don’t let your guard down, dear reader. Just don’t. Because at that very point you think you have heard everything, that you think you have seen it all, a minor Gupta-paid politician with seven followers will come along and surprise you. There I was, wondering what I could do to help the people of the Western Cape as wind, fire and storms battered their homes, when along came Andile Mngxitama, leader of the Black First Land First organisation (which is him, a laptop, a fax and seven people who should be doing something more meaningful with their lives).Then Mngxitama unleashed an opinion article about the storms. This was the sort of thing that might lead to you using strong language and bemoaning the state of our education system and that of Wits University in particular (Mngxitama is an alumnus and a former lecturer there). Our man claimed that "white-owned monopoly capital" is to blame for the storms that ravaged the Cape. Mngxitama, who has taken on the "white monopoly capital" ...
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