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The past week was a maelstrom with the devastating death of a young man whose art interrogated and elevated our country, an elder and mentor in my life who was almost taken from us by Covid-19, as well as a fire that wiped out part of our collective memory and threatened the lives of Capetonian.
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No flooding in the bayous and swimming to safety in alligator-infested waters. No tornadoes throwing around cows from the fields in Kansas and no sprinting from the lava that’s hot on your heels from a volcanic eruption in Hawaii. So I feel fairly safe from these.
I don’t know a lot about tsunamis except that they’re caused by shifting of tectonic plates at the bottom of the ocean (I think). Nothing shook me to my core more than the tsunami in Thailand. THE tsunami.
I mean, what do you do in a situation like that? You can’t drive away, you can’t bop along doing the doggy. And you definitely cannot outrun it.
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Somewhat surprisingly, the ANC also displaced the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) in a ward in Maphumulo. But the politics of patronage remain embedded in these by-election victories and in the broader dynamic of local government politics. In spite of the ANC’s good showing in the by-elections, those are not necessarily a reliable indicator of the scenario for later in the year.
One question that keeps popping up is whether independents will be the wild card in KwaZulu-Natal. With little more than minor exceptions, the party system is in disarray. The majority ANC is being held together with masking tape. At a national level, it has never had a more compromised and divisive chief operating officer than Secretary-General Ace Magashule.
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South Africa finds itself in the midst of a perfect storm and the judiciary is in the eye of that storm.
The context is multilayered but central to it is former president Jacob Zuma’s defiance of the Zondo Commission of Inquiry into State Capture. The matter is now within the remit of the Constitutional Court. Unusually, Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng asked Zuma to submit suggestions as to what kind of sanction he should face for defying the Constitutional Court’s order that he testify at the Commission. Perhaps unsurprisingly, in reply, Zuma has taken a sheet out of his old playbook.