The good must fight smart

He has been called sexist, backward and uncouth. In addition to several brushes with the law he has been found guilty on one charge or another and still faces the possibility of being found guilty in a few cases still in the courts.

- Sydney Majoko

Add being a constitutional delinquent to that unenviable list and it comes very close to describing the United States' most popular leader right now, Donald Trump.

That description could also fit a very popular South African leader, Jacob Zuma, whose political party uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party stunned all and sundry to become the surprise package of South Africa's May election.

In the aftermath of last week's American presidential election, one political commentator invoked Martin Luther King's quote to explain how the "good-valued" Kamala Harris lost to the seemingly unpalatable Donald Trump: "...the moral arch of the universe is very long but it bends towards justice."

In other words, it does not matter that the good guys appear to be losing the battle against the bad guys right now but, in the end, good will prevail.