The pattern is now clear: whenever there is a potential racial crisis to exploit, the EFF descends on the scene of the crime and creates chaos as it fans the flames of racial strife, thereby drawing much-needed attention to itself. Think Clicks (the hair-care advert disparaging black hair), Senekal (the black-on-white farm murder) and now Brackenfell High School (all-white matric party). In the Clicks case, the management rushed towards a settlement (apology, money for bursaries) as violence damaged stores and shut them down. In Senekal, mostly out-of-town white right-wingers and bussed-in EFF berets were barely kept apart by police at the local magistrate’s court were the alleged murderers of a young white farm manager appeared. In Brackenfell, white parents climbed into EFF protesters as fists flew and gunshots went off...