TOM EATON: We are just pawns to be sacrificed in the politics game
It was understandable that we'd start fantasising about Thabo Mbeki and Julius Malema, writes Tom Eaton
It was understandable that we'd start fantasising about Thabo Mbeki and Julius Malema. Inevitable, even. In the 1990s we thought we were God's Rainbow People. Ten years later we believed we were the first flowering of the African Renaissance. Since the eruption of the Gupta e-mails, however, we have discovered what we truly are: slack-jawed, wide-eyed rubes being taken for a monumental ride; the butt of a gigantic, multinational, criminal joke. It's a tough thing to accept. Nobody likes being laughed at, especially not by hypocrite arseholes in pointy shoes and bulletproof SUVs.Having fondled the pre-Zupta past, we were ready to gaze into a post-Zupta future, and this weekend the Sunday Times obliged by interviewing Julius Malema. Speaking with his familiar frankness, the Commander-In-Chief identified the greatest problem looming over South Africa right now, namely, that the media narrative has shifted away from Julius Malema. It's been a tough few months for the Commander. Venezuel...
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