The place: a small coffee shop on the corner of Juta and De Beer, in the heart of Braamfontein.
The time: early Monday morning.
The feel: a crisp winters morning, people shuffling themselves off to work, stuffed in coats and wrapped in scarves, wearing that defiant Jozi-scarred demeanour, looking noticeably weary - more than usual.
The read: Ferial Haffajee's response to Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla in the Sunday's City Press.
The sound: Who'll Stop the Rain by Creedence Clearwater Revival.
The paragraphs: "My biggest lesson this week is that the ANC no longer leads; it can no longer be trusted to pull us back from the brink as it did when Chris Hani died and the nation lay on the edge of a precipice." - "This national pain is greater than our individual hurts, I know." - "I'd like to play my role, but if I respond to fear, insult, demands to remove an item of journalism, threats and intimidation, then what role will I be playing to make ours the best possible world for your little brothers and sisters, and all the children for whom we are making a future?"
Too real.
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