Duplicity of the Day…

by Don Boudreaux on July 20, 2011

in Not from the Onion, Other People's Money, Politics

is from influential South African politician Julius Malema who boasts

One of the things I’ve learnt in my short life in politics is the ability to live in the conditions of capitalism while fighting it and defeating it.

UPDATE (for context from the above-linked news report):

Malema had called a media briefing to respond to a Sunday Independent report at the weekend that he was building himself a R16m [2.3 million U.S. dollars] house in the posh Johannesburg Sandown suburb.

(HT John Vink)

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