In "A ‘Corruption Olympics’ anyone? (https://www.businesslive.co.za/fm/features/2021-04-08-chris-roper-a-corruption-olympics-anyone/)" (Features, April 15-21), serial DA critic Chris Roper sought to downplay the authoritarian creep that’s taken hold since President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the initial "hard lockdown" in response to Covid last March.
While the column begins with a novel proposition — the creation of a strongman/strongwoman metric to measure the brutality meted out by government officials across the globe — it soon degenerates into a diatribe about the DA and its leader John Steenhuisen...
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