SA’s choice: Fancy jet for Zuma or 160 000 internships for the unemployed?
It's becoming increasingly difficult to defend South Africa against assertions of becoming a Banana Republic. Wild swings in the official statistics, like yesterday's trade account surprise, don't help. Far worse, though, is evidence of how those close to the Big Chief fall over each other to shower him with unaffordable gifts – at taxpayer's expense of course. The spirited defence both within and outside Parliament by the ANC that its President requires a R4bn transcontinental jet typifies this insanity. Yesterday, leader of the official opposition Mmusi Maimane scooped up thousands more August election votes after leading a jet-related protest march to the ANC headquarters. The party's guileless and arrogant response will swing a few thousand more. And Luthuli House still wonders why the nation is so angry? – Alec Hogg
By Lizeka Tandwa, News24
Johannesburg – DA leader Mmusi Maimane marched to ANC headquarters on Thursday to demand that plans to buy a R4 billion presidential jet be scrapped.