PATRICK BULGER | Malema’s house is built on hot air ... but don’t expect it to collapse

One hopes voters aren’t duped by his ‘spacious houses’ for the poor and his hypocritical rhetoric, but don’t hold your breath

12 August 2021 - 20:26 By patrick bulger

The Nats were known for matchbox houses and toilets in the veld, the ANC for RDP houses and corrugated iron shacks, and now from the EFF comes the very last word in residential upliftment for the poor — the “spacious house”. Recently, and to demonstrate how seriously they take women, the EFF unveiled on Twitter three such homes at an undisclosed location, which three lucky gogos are going to move into. Actually, they may already be living there, judging from the washing on the line seen in the pictures released to mark the historic moment. And they seem to have DStv fitted as well, so perhaps the EFF wanted to make sure the gogos were settled down nicely and watching Big Brother re-runs in this little Potemkin village of grandmother dreams lost and found...

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