OUT TO LUNCH
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Although I cheerfully admit to being a capitalist I have never much liked Davos. It always seems to be full of rather preening, self styled “global shape shifters” who are all too happy to give the poor of the world a bit of sage advice before retiring to the Senior Figure’s Lounge for some liquid refreshment and the company of fellow shape shifters. Noticeable at Davos every year is the lack of poor people able to put their own case. This is hardly surprising of course because the poor are notoriously scruffy individuals and quite unable to even afford a round of drinks.
It was a bit different this year because there were some key party poopers. The heads of state of the US, the UK, France, India and China all decided to give it a miss this year. Which is a bit like going all the way across the world to catch the absolutely bloody final Rolling Stones world tour only to find that Sir Mick is sick in bed with a sore throat.
However, President Ramaphosa was there with a fairly hefty team of tax-payer sponsored hangers-on to spread the good word about the new dawn. On Twitter this prompted @rinmor to tweet:
“Oh dear….our lot at Davos have uncoupled from us and are floating in some parallel universe….talking effortlessly about how SA is on a new dawn pathway….remind me how many crooks in Gvt have been arrested”