The recycling of politicians seemed to be the theme of the news this week, from South Africa to the US, to Mali and even in Kenya. If voters have a long enough memory, this will come back to haunt the ANC at next year’s local government elections. Over in the US, Joe Biden was busy finishing a race he began way back in the 1980s. It wasn’t because he was particularly in with a great chance of winning, but because of a speech he plagiarised from a British politician’s campaign advert. The British politician was Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock, who was running against Margaret Thatcher in the 1987 British elections.

Source: The Star August 28, 2020 09:22 UTC