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TOM EATON | Throw Survé into the Magashule mix and you get small men, big lies

Believe it or not, some South Africans ate the tripe that Ace trumped Cyril, and who better to feed them than Iqbal

06 May 2021 - 20:50 By tom eaton
Tom Eaton Columnist

There was a kind of steampunk elegance to Ace Magashule’s backdated letter, as the Mangaung Machiavelli tried his hand at analogue time-travel, absurdly by stylishly trying to go back in time to save his future...

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