Having been an enthusiastic participant in this endless debate over the last few weeks, let me just ask this. How does one distinguish between the next Mugabe and a loud flash in the pan populist? On what basis does one ignore him, or rush to the exits?
What a gentleman is this! The debate he enthusiastically participates in is one of those that reduced me to rudeness about Malema debates as a genre. But does he get rude back? Nope, he's above that. He asks a legit question, only slightly tersely.
Steven, I think that y. . . .
Sorry. Pause. I can't take this seriously.
No-one but the tax man knows him as Steven. And when you're privileged to know the owner of a handle as distinctive as the one he carries daily, you do not lightly let it go.
Boykey, I think that your position is like mine. You are very deeply interested in a country that'll permanently free your kids and grandchildren from that old foul feeling "oh oh, when will we have to go?" You are very deeply aware that this requires Andile Mngxitama's kids and grandchildren to acquire the new fresh feeling "pa/grandpa is weirdly quaint, wanting us to gang up on white people as if we had a grudge".
To me, the pursuit of the fair, square, stable society is a deep thing. It's about finding an assurance that governance works. This requires a profound method of distributing power.
I have proposed a method of distributing that power. You have exercised your unquestioned right to indicate that this method does not interest you. Fair enough. But I would think, then, that it behoves you to do one of two things. Either find a better way of achieving the target, or shrug your shoulders, say "what the hell" and stop worrying.
But you can't plausibly say "I worry" and then channel your worry into whether Flawed Human A or Flawed Human B should be the one anointed to crash the car in an overdose of power.
Boykey, whether or not Julius has a heart of gold and an Einstein mind is pub talk. Fixing-things talk has hurdles. But it does free you from bad dreams of Mugabe and rushing for exits.
Huge thanks to you for further echo/engagement.
