Safe house
JUSTICE MALALA: Anywhere else in the world someone would be in jail
Here, the Guptas get to be the president’s best friends
KwaZulu Natal’s Lighthouse Bar is a (well-stocked) haven in these turbulent times, when you don’t know who may be following you. I don’t know what it was like to live in the former East Germany under communist rule. It must have been ghastly. The thought of neighbours listening in on your rows with your spouse is pretty horrendous. Or peeping through the keyhole while you stumble through your ... er, ahem ... monthly conjugal meeting. But at least everyone was doing it. While the neighbours watched you, their neighbours watched them watching you. Here in SA today it’s the dastardly Gupta family who is said to be listening in on your fumblings with the lovely wife. They seem to be spying on journalists, bankers and civil servants. Anywhere else in the world someone would be in jail. Here, the Guptas get to be the president’s best friends.The criteria for who they tracked seem rather arbitrary. My friend Peter Bruce got spied on by one of their employees. The man excoriates the Guptas...
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