Mbak in time: even in a disaster we get a Fiks of our old bungling ways

03 April 2020 - 08:00 By tom eaton
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Transport minister Fikile Mbalula
Transport minister Fikile Mbalula
Image: Sunday Times

It was starting to feel that we were all slipping into a terrifying parallel universe in which ANC ministers actually know what they’re doing.

And then along came Fiks, and suddenly everything feels much more familiar.

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