Most ANC members who weighed in on Winde point out that the Western Cape is sadly not yet, in fact, an independent country. The Sunday Times was no better and made Winde its Mampara of the Week, describing the premier’s position as “right-wing stuff” and calling him a “ moegoe”. Clowns will dwindle into insignificance!” Putin will not be arrested and all what’s happening in Eastern Europe will culminate in the reconfiguration of global balance of forces which will replace unipolarity with multi-polarity. I just want to see something.” As we do, as we all do… _STEADY_PAYWALL_Īlso on Twitter and clearly drunk on the Kool Aid, the EFF’s deputy, Fraud Shivambu, added his two cents’ worth: “Winde is a clown like the other clown who’s declared the EFF his number 1 enemy.

There was more of the same from Julius Malema, who tweeted: “How I wish President Putin could make a turn at Leeuwenhof, Gardens, Cape Town. For example, the tweet by my old friend, Carl Niehaus: “Lol, you and who? Go and play police in the creche sandpit where you belong.” This alongside a picture of a toddler in a cop’s uniform. On Twitter, an ever reliable indicator of the mob’s political maturity, the braying has risen to the intellectual level of the school yard.

The blowback against Winde has been extremely puerile. The Russian despot is due to attend a Brics summit in Johannesburg in August, a situation that has put the national government in an embarrassing quandary. Winde was commenting on the confusion that has further dithered Pretoria in this diplomatic cock-up and said he would not hesitate in exercising the International Criminal Court’s warrant for Putin’s arrest, a position that has been endorsed by DA leader John Steenhuisen. MUCH derision, I note, directed at Western Cape premier Alan Winde following his declaration last week that Vladimir Putin would be arrested should he enter the province. Andrew Donaldson on the blowback against Premier Alan Winde's threat to have the Russian president arrested

Putin's no 1 enemy