THE SORRY STATE OF SOUTH AFRICA'S OPPOSITION PARTIES: PART ONE.
"Resistance among the powerful is natural when change clashes with their self-interest." Essay, So my floor became my sisters' ceiling, Warren Buffet, chairman and CEO, Berkshire Hathaway, 02 May 2013.
In one of his more delicious waggish remarks of unforgettable levity, the great American author, Samuel Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, wrote:
"Imagine you are an idiot. And imagine you are a member of Congress. But I am repeating myself."
Is it too impolite in today's South Africa to ask someone to imagine that he is an idiot, and to also imagine that he is a member of any of South Africa's opposition parties, only for him to discover it is all tautology?
But listening to the brimstone and acid rain overflowing verbiage of post-1994 opposition parties in South Africa hollering against the ruling African National Congress (ANC)'s administrations in the last twenty years, you will not at all be reminded of Mark Twain.