X marks a spot of contention

25 August 2024 - 00:00 By Hogarth

Hogarth hears from the “Fees Must Fall” generation in the newsroom that it was the late US musician/poet Gil Scott-Heron who said “the revolution will not be televised”. Well, maybe the poet was right about it not unfolding on television, but the revolution — if that is what what Julius Malema, Floyd Shivambu and their fellow-travellers are engaged in — is surely being tweeted. The self-styled commander-in-chief of those red overalls reveals just how important Twitter, now known as X, is for the “revolution” when he suggested that one EFF leader was no longer loyal to the Red Berets as his wife had “liked” a post in support of Shivambu’s defection to Jacob Zuma’s MK Party...

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