State of emergency is too much — unless your wife has run out of petrol

Cyril Ramaphosa blinked, leaving a mall-sized void between ducking the public and a massacre

By the time I’ve finished writing this it will be out of date. Things are moving too fast. On one hand you want to ask the instigators of the violence and mayhem on the streets of KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng, “Is this all you’ve got?” On the other it is almost impossible to say with certainty that there is instigation here at all. There might have been at the start, when Jacob Zuma went to prison. But now? ..

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