In defense of Habib in his piece "The Mob hounding Habib must be challenged" in the Business Day on 29, March, 2021, the CEO of the Institute of Race Relations Frans Cronje invokes the notion of a 'mob'. As such, he adds insult to injury. But does he care, anyway?

I came to understand that this complex consists of white males who control the SA economy — from finance to arms. In the context of such a reality, [the] BEE policy became nothing else but a search for a niche in the prevailing power structures by the 'aspirant Black bourgeoisie', hence their inability to constitute a radical break from the economic logic of the old order

If we agree that “art makes visible the pain that buries itself in the cavities that logic and reason alone cannot access,” what are the implications of art works or cultural productions that defy this emancipatory ideal?

I carry the burden of the broad based joke that has only Rupert, thuma mina and Motsepe laughing. I lift the eternal aim of bereted bullets dismembering mabhush, I lift the jealous curses zaboDlamini khohlakele, the mpimpi accusations, the spells zenyoka yomlilo, the xenophobic death treats ngeneklace, the tuberculosis spits, Matansa I dig this this continent."