South AfricaDaily Maverick1 d ago

LETTER TO MAHLAMBA NDLOPFU: Sies for Sisisi’s creative accounting and the cat with crocodile tears

It’s been a wild time for statecraft as a paper trail leads us to a minister’s game, dumbbells ring for JZ, Mbalula blubs, the head of the police pulls a Terminator and Carrim does that which is haram. Ah, Chief Dwasaho! Some, if not all, Daily Maverick readers know me as a smart aleck. A few reckon I am a bad apple, a loose cannon and an armchair critic of our political establishment. Truth be told, my leader, I am a cold fish. Nothing excites me. Not even the discovery that politicians have mistaken the public purse for a family inheritance. Take the simpletons going gaga over former social development minister Nokuzola “Sisisi” Tolashe’s innovative economic development strategy.

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