The Big Read: Let's not mince words here

11 October 2016 - 10:10
By Tom Eaton

"Student leader". That's what the journalist called Mcebo Dlamini. I reread the paragraph to check if I'd missed a line somewhere, perhaps one in which Dlamini was described as a fantasist who admired Hitler, who called Jews "devils", who claimed that Wits had head-hunted him to do a "secret" degree in nuclear physics, and who was now leading a minority of students at the university.

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