OPINION: If social media was real, South Africa would be preparing to inaugurate JuliusMalema as president.
If social media was real, South Africa would be preparing to inaugurate Julius Malema as president at Loftus Versfeld next Saturday. The opposition benches would be made up of Andile Mngxitama’s Black Land First Party and Kanthan Pillay’s Capitalist Party of South Africa .The only thing the twitterati got right last week was that Jimmy Manyi might have got a real ATM for himself and a plus one at least for the next five years.
But just as those platforms bolster self-delusion, they can also be incredibly brutal, the purple cow was eviscerated for having vowed to get a couple of seats in Parliament, only to forfeit their IEC deposit altogether. The true story of Wednesday, May 8, is that only one in two of South Africa’s eligible 35.9 million voters pitched up on the day - and even then, it was a blood bath for parties like the PAC, Cope and Agang. Who knows what effect those missing millions might have had?
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