TOM EATON | Perhaps the activist was a jerk to Cele, but you know who should be upset?

It’s possible the police minister knows who Ian Cameron is and doesn’t like his politics. I myself am not a huge fan

06 July 2022 - 21:05

Bheki Cele’s tough-guy image has long been proved to be nothing but a buffoonish disguise he wears to deflect from his supreme incompetence. But this week he couldn’t even maintain a reasonable facsimile of being an adult, throwing a proper vloer-moer and all but sticking his fingers in his ears as he screamed “Shut up! Shut up!” at an activist presenting him — and the ANC as a whole — with cold, hard facts...

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