How the hell can we believe you?

As the ANC becomes more and more estranged from ordinary South Africans, it is losing what little ability it had to “read the room.” And, while not wanting to either speak ill of the dead or despoil a solemn ceremony, it looks like President Cyril Ramaphosa was tone deaf in his eulogy yesterday for the late ambassador to France, Nathi Mthethwa.

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He dwelt on Mthethwa’s struggle credentials, calling him a man of integrity who believed in the dignity of all South Africans. This, just over two weeks after Mthethwa’s name emerged at the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry into dodgy dealings between cops and senior politicians.

Mthethwa fell to his death from the 22nd floor of a Paris hotel not long after the commission claim.