SA is in crisis and the ANC is a write-off. So, where is the outrage?

05 August 2019 - 06:00 By justice malala
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African National Congress president Cyril Ramaphosa.
African National Congress president Cyril Ramaphosa.
Image: Gallo Images / Phill Magakoe

This is SA for you. Our house is burning and our so-called leaders are once again too busy with their juvenile pissing contests.

The populace is in a slumber, rousing itself only to cheer when an EFF leader insults someone or Zuma calls one of his comrades an apartheid spy.

The truth is that we should be calling for a national state of emergency. A full-on crisis is unfolding while we insult each other.

And yet, as you read this, many so-called leaders and the rest of the populace have already forgotten the devastating news that was announced by Statistics SA last Tuesday.

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