Kameraad Mhambi

This is the video that has caused such a furore in South Africa. The TV company that made it, ETV has been subpoenaed under an apartheid era law to come forward and supply the names of those interviewed.

And the plot has thickened. One man who is said to have organised the interviews committed suicide this week.

The South African police and the ANC has threatened ETV.

I smell a rat. The suicide seems very odd. I would love to see that police dossier.

Is the Police Commissioners violent rhetoric making a difference? On the Constitutionally speaking blog a regular, a certain Maggs commented this week:

“The ANC cannot claim that it was unaware of the circumstances that led to at least 40 000 houses being built to such inferior standards that those have to be demolished.

The list goes on and on and on.

Police Commissioner (is it General) Cele seems to be one of the few DGs, if not the only one, that is taking the task at hand seriously.

It’s time the Zuma led ANC government showed some teeth if they are serious about “working together, we can do more”.”

Gwebecimele agreed:

May be its about time that we pick up a topic about what is working in this new administration. Maggs is right Cele is making the right noise and I suspect that our crime stats will come out better. Criminals are downscaling to robbing KFC’s, Clothing shops because of the closing of their operating space. Even Nqakula must be noticing that something has changed.

Rian Malan wrote a few years back that the football World Cup would be like a gun to South Africa’s head. The stakes are high indeed.

South Africa is a hard place to be a liberal.

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