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Occam's razor is a rough heuristic, not a law of nature. Sometimes, the more complex explanation turns out to be the correct one.

Politics tends to be complex, and while I know next to nothing about South-African politics I have no reason to believe it's any different there. You can't just apply Occam's razor to the first simple explanation that springs to mind.



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