Political gangsterism is a clear and present danger – The Mail & Guardian

Political gangsterism is a clear and present danger – The Mail & Guardian

It’s now a little more than a decade and a half since Abahlali baseMjondolo first started to describe municipal politics in Durban in terms of gangsterism. At the time they were seldom believed in the middle-class world, which was still insulated from the criminality that was beginning to metastasise through our politics. It was only when it became clear that Jacob Zuma and the Gupta brothers were running a wholesale kleptocracy that the middle …