Personae

In this unfiltered, unvarnished portrait of the artist, Sheff succeeds magnificently in bringing one of popular music’s most divisive and misunderstood personae to life.

Soon Tompkins enters this free-for-all theater of the mind as a Truman Capote-coded socialite named “Hoover Personae” — who at one point observes that the masked vigilante “The Shadow” “was a butterface.”

It is also a world in which digital personae appear ready to lure the unsuspecting to places they may never return from.

Another reason which could have pushed Mr Shivambu to defect is that he and Mr Malema - despite their public personae of being socialists and African nationalists - were at the centre of a major corruption scandal, he added.

The fantasy that every bad man would get his due, with the violent ones in jail and the manipulative ones made personae non grata, has not played out.