Illustrative image | From left: Former president Jacob Zuma. (Photo: Deaan Vivier / Gallo Images) | Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi. (Photo: Sharon Seretlo / Gallo Images) | DA Federal Council Chairperson Helen Zille. (Photo: Darren Stewart / Gallo Images) | EFF leader Julius Malema. (Photo: Sharon Seretlo / Gallo Images) | MK party secretary-general Floyd Shivambu. (Photo: Luba Lesolle / Gallo Images) | Social media personality Haley Kalil. (Photo: TikTok screenshot) | A Palestinian boy. (Photo: Ahmad Salem / Getty Images)
By Rebecca Davis – 21 December 2024
As people become increasingly polarised by flagrant displays of wealth, frat boy podcasters and viral, AI-generated fake news, SA and its change of government is showing the way forward.
Every year in South African politics is bonkers in ways that rapidly become normalised. To give just two examples: In 2013, a radical new party enters Parliament dressed in the uniforms of labourers and domestic workers. In 2017, the country discovers that the president has in effect ceded control of the state to a single foreign family…