Lekgotlas, imbizos, national dialogue — all symbolic politics pretending to give people a voice
“Imagine your house is one fire,” one of Nelson Mandela’s trusted advisers asked me this week.
“Does the neighbourhood watch come over and say, ‘hey, let’s have a national dialogue about the problem. No, you put out the damn fire!’”..
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