How does a vile persona on the other side of the world so easily rattle the fragile unity of SA’s polity?
The man in question is of course a convicted felon in his own country, a rapist and an unrepentant racist. He is also the US president.
I wondered last week about the intense reaction this man evokes in a region of the world where he would not know the difference between Zimbabwe and Zambia, let alone Zastron and Zeerust.