This performance is part of the Daily Maverick series of lectures.
Every day, when the sun gently peeks over the horizon, we wake up to a South Africa that sometimes feels like a chapter in a tragi-comic graphic novel.
There’s a man in Gauteng drilling for water right into the Gautrain tunnel. There's a minister announcing that we should be calm, that the country is ‘stable and safe’ despite a coup, violence, crime and terrorism. Nothing to see here ... just walk on.
Pretoria-born investigative journalist Marianne Thamm is back on stage with a new piece of ‘performance journalism’.
