Rise up, you middle class, against a culture of illiteracy and vulgarity

Xolela Mangcu

And our experience with Thabo Mbeki and Robert Mugabe has demonstrated that intellectuals can also lead their people to extinction.

The question is whether a member of the Nkandla middle classes, Jacob Zuma, can preside over the re-emergence of a middle-class culture in keeping with our oldest and most cherished values — education, faith and temperance.

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