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YOU KNOW who got punched and manhandled and thrown out of Parliament on Thursday night? It was not just those red-clad EFF MPs, it was the people who voted for them. (And let’s remember that the less-than-glittering star of last night’s show was NOT elected by us; we voted for the parties, not the president.)
Those one million-plus people include several whom I know. They are young, urban and have tertiary education. They have no confidence in the ANC and they don’t feel they’d be at home in the DA.
They understand clearly that the famous question, “When will you pay the money back?” is not strictly about Nkandla; it’s about the lack of accountability broadly across government (with some shining but small exceptions, of course). They don’t adore Julius Malema, but they do see the EFF as a means to express their anger at the failure to account to the nation.
