In SA’s pre-election madness and mayhem, we need to stop and smell the cosmos

Dear DM168 reader,
It’s the Easter weekend, our first proper break with our families, and a crazy period of mayhem, madness and political myopia being used by opportunists ahead of South Africa’s May 29 election to hoodwink the gullible and ill-informed to vote them on to the gravy train.
On one of our DM WhatsApp groups, someone shared a link to a snippet of Lester Kiewit’s interview with Julius Malema, where he asked the EFF leader if he knew the price of a loaf of bread – a staple of every struggling South African family. The response was so telling of how removed the…