If you’re alarmed at the prospect of former president Jacob Zuma joining a new political party ahead of the coming elections, calm down. Zuma was great in the wake of an aloof and distant Thabo Mbeki, but without a well-oiled political machine behind him he is a distracted and disorganised mess.
When you look at the American television networks you are viewing what is really a tragicomedy. Very much of it is comical especially when they are increasingly, focusing on Donald Trump. But that is not really new. They have been doing so for some time. What is new now is that they are fully into the Silly Season, as we term it. We use it to refer to the period …