The Phala Phala “revelation” was a dirty trick concocted by Arthur Fraser to get rid of President Cyril Ramaphosa. It’s just another twitch in the slow demise of the ANC. But obsessing about it takes our attention off a global danger in which SA is quite likely to become collateral damage.
Meanwhile, Russia continues to smash Ukraine’s electrical infrastructure, turning it from an electricity exporter to both an importer and a significant user of diesel generation equipment. The UK media continue to wail about possible load-shedding over Christmas. I’m beginning to think the net zero campaign was a fiendishly astute Russian initiative to weaken the West before embarking on its “special military operation”.
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