Tito: memories of sweet bygone era

In mourning the death of anyone, part of the grief is for what that person represents in terms of a time past - a time which can never happen again. That is why marking the death of Tito Mboweni is more than acknowledging that the man is no more, it is nostalgia for an era we will never see again.

And that era was one when the giants of the ANC seemed to be driven by a belief that they could change South Africa for the better for everyone... and not just for themselves and their money-grubbing accomplices. The latter is a fairly accurate description of how a once proud and effective liberation movement has lost its way, with its crowning current achievement being the liberation of taxpayer money for themselves.