South African president let off the hook by a party that has forgotten the millions of destitute people who voted it into powerOne wonders what the smart young suits of the credit ratings agency Moody’s must have thought of it all when they arrived in Johannesburg final week to assess South Africa’s economy.
The front pages of newspapers were full of the sort of lurid (shocking; sensational) drama one expects to see in B-grade Hollywood movies. A specialised police department,ominously called the Crimes Against The State Unit, had threatened to arrest the countrys highly respected finance minister just days after he returned from a trip to try to drum up international investment.
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Source: theguardian.com