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On Wednesday, Mosiuoa Lekota delivered his masterstroke. Parliament is only big enough for one ANC-Lite two-faced capitalist harking back to the Rainbow years, and Lekota needs to be the last man sitting on that fence. If he is going to dream of pushing his share of the national vote up into the heady heights of 0.7% or even 0.8%, Cyril Ramaphosa’s enemies need to be aided and abetted.
Lekota’s speech, in which he claimed that Ramaphosa had sold out comrades to the apartheid security branch, received a standing ovation from opposition parties, presumably because they also desperately need Ramaphosa recalled and replaced with one of Zuma’s creatures so that they can return to the sheltered employment they enjoyed throughout his wretched reign.
I suspect the Freedom Front Plus just heard “special branch” and was flooded with nostalgic endorphins. I don’t know why the EFF jumped up, given that it has been accusing Lekota of being a sell-out for some time, but perhaps someone dropped some money on the floor near Floyd Shivambu. But perhaps the real reason they all stood and cheered was something more honest: genuine admiration for a demonstration of politics at its most shitty. If Lekota is lying about Ramaphosa, or recycling old and unfounded rumours, then he is simply letting his old ANC colours show. After all, this is the former defence minister who, in 2014, denied to the arms deal commission that the ANC had benefited financially from that gigantic orgy of plunder. But if he’s telling the truth, ah, well then that’s some world-class, A-list, Olympic-quality hypocrisy. And it’s not only the DA and EFF that love it. We love it, too. At some point, “dropping files” or revealing “smallanyana skeletons” became funny to us, ...
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