Tortured prose

The link below connects to an article by Tim Cohen from the Johannesburg Saturday newspaper, the “Weekender”, yesterday. It is almost impossible to guess what the man is really trying to say. He is scared to come out with it. He could be saying that President Thabo Mbeki has been corrupted. Judge for yourself. Click on the link and read it. Why he writes in such a peculiar way is also not clear. Cohen is an experienced and senior journalist who is quite capable of expressing himself. He may be afraid of his editor, as he suggests, or of litigation. At least this much is certain: The “underlying facts” that Cohen mentions are nothing to do with Jacob Zuma, unless in the sense of Jacob Zuma being the “fall guy”, the one who is “framed” to “take the rap”. Sometimes the prose of high-paid professional writers like Cohen is harder to understand than US gangster jargon. Click on this link: Elephant in room wants out, Tim Cohen, Business Day Weekender (638 words)