WORLDVIEW: Genie out the bottle, elite fighting back dirty but resistance is futile

Once again this week I was reminded of the tyranny of distance this week. South Africa's navel gazing mass media focused its attention on an "open letter" by the hapless Duduzane Zuma. An event that turned from misguided to bizarre when the poor fellow's ghost writers misspelled his name.

That wasn't the only clue that the letter was drafted in the Saxonwold Shebeen. Its half-truth-laden "facts" look to any rational mind as a last gasp defence of the crony capitalist Gupta family, who are now very obviously on the run.

But what is easily missed in the local drama, though, is how the Duduzane letter mirrors a global theme. The old order of control by elites is buckling under sustained pressure. It has passed the point of return. A new world of transparency and truth is slowly gaining the upper hand.

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