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[Thought Leader] In the best-case scenario, it could turn out to be the kind of turbulence that will lead, eventually, to a South African spring, in which new political alliances are formed, and where the poorest of the poor will finally scrape together the courage to take their dissatisfaction with the ANC’s lack of service delivery to the polls and vote for new leadership. That would be the lesser of the two evils, for, even should the new leadership turn out to be just another incompetent bunch like most of their predecessors, democracy will then have served its purpose, and, in spite of the protests, the strikes, and the burning tyres, the Boeing will hopefully stay in the air, and the show will somehow carry on.

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