"I think, therefore I am," used to be a good description of the human condition. Not any more. South African parastatal managers now appear to have replaced it with," I speak, therefore I think I am." How else does one interpret the latest verbal ballet around plans for a refinery at Coega? Vague references to Venezuelans apart, who the hell is going to invest R39 billion in a) The Eastern Cape, a province known to be the most inefficiently and corruptly run in South Africa? b) in South Africa, a country whose next president might be an African chief with four wives who makes a habit of dancing on public platforms while calling for his machine gun?
Answer: Not many. And they are all dead.
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