SA now firmly in camp of the despots

It was left to the unlikely figure of the small business development minister, Lindiwe Zulu, to explain to parliament why the executive had broken the law by allowing Sudan's Omar al-Bashir to escape a judicial order that he be prevented from exiting this country, and another that he be arrested. It was a speech dripping with sarcasm, condescension, hubris and sulky aggression as one might expect from a small-business minister suddenly, blissfully, freed from the conservative ideological strait...