Tawdry auctioning off of Madiba memorabilia sets tone for 2024 elections

That even his identity document is being sold to the highest bidder seems an awful betrayal of Madiba as father first and foremost and then as statesman. But it also feels like a betrayal of a country for whom Madiba was simply ‘Tata’. This auction diminishes us all. 

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