Their leaders appear unable to hold firm to their convictions when confronted with personal benefit. This holds true for many of us — hypocrisy could be taken as a given condition of being human. But these are elected officials.
Their apparent penchant for pairing champagne with views over Camps Bay — after wearing red overalls in solidarity with the working class — is, according to theLet’s not pretend that the sanctimony that has erupted on behalf of the poor is bereft of contradiction itself. The self same people who claim to express outrage on behalf of the country’s poorest people, are also complicit in the continuing exploitation of these people.
Remember that this is the same Malema, who, with the aid of a band of close friends, made a pretty penny out of public infrastructure projects in Limpopo, and debilitated parts of the province in the process. From empty plates and school feeding schemes to barely-drivable roads, the legacy of this merry band of tender riders is well known in the province.
And so, far beyond the many hundreds of thousands of people that Malema would reach through his new political party, he also became the begrudging beloved of that part of South Africa that fancies itself politically aware, socially concerned and generally better educated than anyone else.
This quasi-commie intellectual paper should really be examining the relevance of it's continued existence!
this is why the M&G is my favourite paper in SA
stepping so low as to popping through people's thrash is disgusting
Is this thing only about poor, because I'm not poor and still voted for EFF my self and my family. I voted for Land, all strategic sectors of the economy must be nationalized, labour brokers must be abolished etc
You must live in poverty if you are pro-poor? Not all voters of EFF are poor.
'...we expect them to at least have the compunction to better reconcile their public utterances with their private actions.' Fewww......Went like a Boeing over the heads of the woodworking brigade.
Nail on the head.
A very sober article
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