Forsaking the timid passive route of quiet diplomacy, Sipho Pityana went for the jugular this week. The occasion was not some discrete inconspicuous meeting of academics or malcontents, but rather one where all the heavy-weights & decision makers were in attendance: the annual Mining Indaba.
This was speaking truth to power not in spurts of incoherent anger and rage such as a blustering Malema, but rather the poetry of well-marshalled facts. Pityana exposed for the world to view, the rot that lay beneath the platitudes, the evasive replies, the blatant mendacious lies of a kleptocratic government and a supine populace and industry.
Main picture: Sipho Pityana
