Opinion
Mampara of the week: Mmusi Maimane
IN A POLITICAL PIT LATRINE
Memories of "Fight Back" came right back this week when the DA leader unveiled a bloody billboard in Johannesburg emblazoned with the words, "The ANC is killing us".
For those too young to remember, "Fight Back" was the reactionary campaign slogan the DA adopted when it collected just 12% of the votes in the 1999 election. Twenty years later, and in a similar state of pre-poll panic, someone in the DA brains trust had the offensive idea of appropriating the names of Marikana and Life Esidimeni victims, not to mention those of children who have died in pit latrines, in pursuit of votes.
The DA leader's role should have been to strangle (a) the idea at birth and (b) the twit who proposed it. Instead, he claimed top billing at the unveiling.
Time to apologise profusely, Maimane...
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