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My take on the unnecessary noise around whether Mcebo Freedom Dlamini can present a topic as an "analyst" on TV is very simple:
People will... in fact comrades in particular will try and contain and limit you to what they have always imagined that you are capable of. They will deny you opportunities where they have keys and assume you cannot make it without their social capital.
When you define yourself beyond the boundaries of their own imagination, reinvent yourself and excel in areas they've never thought you would, they will show themselves and express hurtful words and ridicule. They will try to reduce your true worth in the eyes of society.
I'm not sure where this collective hatred stems from. My initial suspicion is peer jealousy on the one hand and on the other hand, prejudice from some in the elite networks of politically connected families who grew up thinking that success belongs to them alone.
I'm not one to view comrades through narrow regional and even sectoral lens like who graduated from which institution. I hate that lens in fact. I find it extremely limited and unscientitic... But allow me today though, as an exception to say this :
Wits comrades" must stop this thing of choosing in their own minds, who is capable and deserving of success and who is not amongst their peers.
If you can celebrate others who left straight from class to important institutions of the state, surely you can afford to spend a few minutes objectively listening to an analysis by one of your own who is a fu***g Law graduate and longtime activist for that matter.
