‘relentless self-promoter’
The Greek thinker Aristotle concluded in about 350 BCE that nature abhors a vacuum.
It’s a scientific axiom that’s survived intact for almost 2 500 years, only to be challenged now in South Africa.
Here, in the unending scrabble to the top of the ANC dungheap, we have the fascinating phenomenon of one vacuum seeking to replace another. Improbable though it might seem, the party’s voluble but vacuous secretary-feneral, Fikile Mbalula, appears to have set his sights on the position
