On Tuesday one of the country’s richest men, Johann Rupert, gave a presentation at Remgro’s annual general meeting in Somerset West, in which he suggested South Africa was going slowly bust.
It would end, he thought, quite suddenly. We would wake up and, as a country, be bust.
It’s the kind of comment that one used to hear from those who were doomsayers, the old white elite who couldn’t stand the fact there were black people at the Union Buildings. But now something has shifted: in a way, Rupert seems to have perfectly captured the gloominess of the public mood. By Stephen Grootes.
As a member of the commentariat, it is now impossible to avoid the mood of despair.
Perhaps it’s Eskom, forcing us to braai in the rain and the dark. Maybe it’s Tina Joemat-Pettersson clearly not giving a stuff about whether a fraudster takes over PetroSA.
Perhaps, just perhaps, it’s Number One (Zuma) shirking his Parliamentary responsibilities and simply getting away with it. (And probably laughing.) It just seems that nothing is working at the moment…
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