With the elections just here, these attacks will continue. But politicians must never think that their attacks will stop the questions being asked.
The most patriotic thing a journalist can do is ask questions of politicians. And then ask them again. And again. This has become even more necessary and urgent today, when the journalistic profession is under siege here and elsewhere, than ever before. It has become the fashion for politicians to attack journalists, denigrate them, call them names and demand “patriotism” from them. Politicians demand that their hypocrisy and their misdeeds be ignored and that they be treated with kid gloves. Many move around with armies of communications personnel and yet they demand to be treated with deference when they have to account for their actions or just tell the truth. In this way, they wish to swat away the one profession that stands between them and outright plunder and looting. It must not be allowed to happen. Last week we saw more examples of this egregious behaviour here at home and abroad. Is the ANC’s Ace Magashule guilty of taking bribes from the Gupta family and creaming off mil...
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