Mampara of the week: Andile Mngxitama
ADJUST THE WORK-SPITE BALANCE
With the Guptas in retreat, and former Mampara-in- Chief Jacob Zuma losing relevance, Black First Land First leader Andile Mngxitama is running out of struggles.
Enter the white monopoly capital mascot, tycoon Johann Rupert, with his off-the-wall comments about having friends in the taxi industry who can defend him. Rupert has met his match in fire-talking, with deputy-Biko warning in response, "You kill one of us, we will kill five of you."
Mngxitama's typically rabid response of retaliation could only have come from a Gupta-endowed peacetime revolutionary who lacks personal experience of war, or of the consequences of his war talk.
Even with the economy battling, is it asking too much that someone give this Mampara a job just to shut him up?..
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