If we've all gone mad, it's for a reason
28 July 2019 - 00:00
Calm down if you can. This country is quite mad. The news cycle is so fast and intense that it induces feelings of inadequacy, of being unable to keep up. Just this week the public protector was taken apart by the Constitutional Court, went back to court the next day trying to nail public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan (and ultimately Cyril Ramaphosa) and the day after that announced an investigation into the appointment of South African Revenue Service (Sars) commissioner Ed Kieswetter, what public intellectual Songezo Zibi called "another dial-a-finding" investigation...
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