EDITORIAL | Some issues are more important than your attention-seeking, Fikile

Fikile Mbalula’s childish buffoonery on Twitter is not what we should expect from a senior government minister

07 March 2022 - 18:50

There’s no doubt that transport minister Fikile Mbalula likes the limelight. The man who refers to himself as “MR FIX” (in all caps, of course) on Twitter is certainly not shy of the public eye — to the point that, not long ago, he called himself “Mr Fearfokkol” to his about 2.7-million Twitter followers...

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