{"id":178087,"date":"2021-01-22T18:48:29","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T16:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/?p=98288"},"modified":"2021-01-22T18:48:29","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T16:48:29","slug":"50-people-who-fd-up-south-africa-the-lost-decade-by-alexander-parker-and-tim-richman-with-cartoons-by-zapiro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/50-people-who-fd-up-south-africa-the-lost-decade-by-alexander-parker-and-tim-richman-with-cartoons-by-zapiro\/","title":{"rendered":"50 People Who F***d Up South Africa : The Lost Decade by Alexander Parker and Tim Richman with cartoons by Zapiro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/?attachment_id=98289\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-98289 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/50-people-who-fd-up-south-africa-the-lost-decade-by-alexander-parker-and-tim-richman-with-cartoons-by-zapiro.jpg\" alt width=\"211\" height=\"300\"><\/a>It took 350 years to come up with the list of shame for the original 50 People Who Stuffed Up South Africa, published to critical acclaim in 2010. But it\u2019s taken only ten more years to come up with the next 50\u2026<\/p>\n<p>From Shaun Abrahams to Mosebenzi Zwane, 50 People Who F***ed Up South Africa is filled with the architects and beneficiaries of state capture who have defined The Lost Decade. There\u2019s Dlamini, there\u2019s Zuma and there\u2019s Dlamini-Zuma. There are the Guptas, Geoghegan and Gigaba. There\u2019s a malady of \u201cM\u201ds \u2013 Mabuza, Magashule, Mahumapelo (and many more mofos). There are the crony-corporate enablers and big business abusers. Importantly, there are clean takedowns of those who represent the scandals that will live in infamy when the history of this time is written: Eskom, Nkandla, Marikana, Life Esidimeni, Steinhoff, Bosasa, VBS Mutual Bank\u2026 And then there is the joker in the pack (Niehaus), the naked emperor (Surv\u00e9), the zombie killer (Pistorius), the Twittering twit (Zille) and the twit who got past security (Thamsanqa Jantjie).<\/p>\n<p>The end result is a readable, accessible, entertaining overview of South Africa\u2019s recent political and socioeconomic landscape. Because sometimes humour (along with a clearly painted picture) really is the best coping mechanism\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Title: 50 People Who F***ed Up South Africa<br \/>Subtitle: The Lost Decade<br \/>Authors: Alexander Parker and Tim Richman, with cartoons by Zapiro<br \/>ISBN: 9781990956096<br \/>Publisher: Mercury<br \/>Distributor: Jacana Media<br \/>Genre: SA non-fiction \/ Humour \/ SA Politics \/ Satire \/ Social Commentary<br \/>Format: Softcover \/ ebook<br \/>Recommended Retail Price: R 285<br \/>Release Date: November 2020<br \/>Availability: Available in all good bookstores, from Takealot and other online retailers, and as an ebook and paperback from Amazon.<br \/>For more information: Jodi Lynn Karpes, GreenQueen Communications ; +27 (0)84 876 5431, jodi@greenqueen.co.za<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mypr.co.za\/contact\/featured\/\">CLICK HERE to submit your press release to MyPR.co.za<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-pagination pagination\">Pages: <span class=\"post-page-numbers current\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Page <\/span>1<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/50-people-who-fd-up-south-africa-the-lost-decade-by-alexander-parker-and-tim-richman-with-cartoons-by-zapiro\/2\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Page <\/span>2<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\">Source: MyPR.co.za<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took 350 years to come up with the list of shame for the original 50 People Who Stuffed Up South Africa, published to critical acclaim in 2010. But it\u2019s taken only ten more years to come up with the next 50\u2026 From Shaun Abrahams to Mosebenzi Zwane, 50 People Who F***ed Up South Africa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":178088,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9021,1],"tags":[3257],"class_list":{"0":"post-178087","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mypr","8":"category-south-africa","9":"tag-mypr","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/50-people-who-fd-up-south-africa-the-lost-decade-by-alexander-parker-and-tim-richman-with-cartoons-by-zapiro.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}