Who can trust a corporate failure to run a country?

Lucas Ledwaba

Any self-respecting politician confident of their support base would never try to force a public broadcaster to cover their party’s manifesto launch.

After all, no one in their right thinking mind starts a political party and aim to win seats in Parliament without a trusted support base.

But this is exactly what new kid on the political block Hlaudi Motsoeneng has done. After launching a party with a weird name that sounds like a module from a course in adult basic education, he then did the unthinkable.

The former SA Broadcasting Corporation chief operations officer tried to drag his former employer to court to force the public broadcaster to do a live coverage of his manifesto launch in Durban.

In his mind, Motsoeneng probably had images of roaring masses packing and overflowing from the historic Curries Fountain stadium to hear him map his vision for Mzansi’s future.

But