The ANC’s national chairperson Gwede Mantashe has always had a condescending, dismissive tone, which the media and some in the ANC routinely laugh off as humour. It is a familiar South African culture wherein people can be dismissive, flippant or vulgar. We just laugh and find humour in it all and still defend when such gets called out or challenged . In that video, proudly posted by the ANC’s social media team, as they see nothing untoward with its contents, he appears to condescend the woman over matric boasting about him having passed matric at 18, he sidesteps the serious issue raised by the journalist about jobs for sex, a phenomenon that has become prevalent with ward councillors in particular and he resorts to cringeworthy, dismissive language yezi bumbu that makes a mockery of the entire exchange. And the choir will sing, “uMqwathi unjalo ha ha ha he he he ke ke ke ke “ as though that makes it acceptable. We have leaders and people aba khamisa bathyale because society condones such. And you wonder why the moral decay.