TOM EATON: Are you ready for the next revolution? The one against the masses?
'The ANC’s deep and growing distrust of voters is bizarrely similar to the contemptuous despair of white racists over the years'
Imagine a small group of South Africans sitting around a fire-pit at a swanky game lodge. They’re all vastly wealthy but gloomy as hell. Earlier in the evening there was laughter and silliness but now the expensive whisky has invited grim ruminations on the state of things and on the dissatisfaction and anxiety they all share. “This country, man,” sighs the richest of them. “It’s not like it was in the good old days.” “It’s the masses,” murmurs another millionaire, poking at a melting ice cube. “They just don’t know how to vote properly.” There are approving hums and sighs from the others. Silence falls. The fire gleams in puffy, watery eyes…
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