From now on almost every decision agriculture minister and DA leader John Steenhuisen makes is going to be measured by a fair-sized chunk of the voting population as the work of his new chief of staff at agriculture, Roman Cabanac, a polarising figure from the right, if not the far right, of our political spectrum. 

I don’t know Cabanac, but I have watched his activity on social media, like many others of his persuasion, with a low-grade despair. I would normally quote some of his writings in an article like this but it’s impossible now. ..