Shooting his mouth off
Adam Habib nearly walked away with this dubious honour. When he found himself cornered by students the other day for insensitively using the N-word while trying to condemn its alleged use by a colleague at a UK university, our prof chose to embarrass the whole of Southern Africa by claiming that we freely use the word in these parts without consequences.
But then there is Tito Mboweni, the finance minister responsible for the government ’s austerity programme. When the streets of Joburg were on fire, with university students crying out for access to higher education, he took to social media to brag about the city’s beautiful skies.
To add insult to injury, he was also quick to tweet that no student had died in a police shooting in town. At least for that, the Mampara apologised.
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