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Bosasa proves it yet again: SA's leaders are a world-class mess

21 January 2019 - 08:00 By justice malala
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A soldier stands before a burning barricade during protests in Harare, Zimbabwe. SA is treating Emmerson Mnangagwa exactly as it used to treat Robert Mugabe: with sickening, immoral deference.
A soldier stands before a burning barricade during protests in Harare, Zimbabwe. SA is treating Emmerson Mnangagwa exactly as it used to treat Robert Mugabe: with sickening, immoral deference.
Image: REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo

What a thoroughly depressing week. 

Remember those days when we said we will never be as corrupt as the Sani Abachas of Nigeria, or the Mobutu Sese Sekos of Zaire? The Bosasa and Gupta scandals confirm it: we are there. We are there.

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