TOM EATON | Let’s not fall for Malema’s pre-rally rally on Monday

The proposed shutdown is nothing but a thinly-disguised EFF election rally at the expense of taxpayers and honest hardworking South Africans

16 March 2023 - 21:34

Monday’s “shutdown” by the EFF has been sold as a national protest against load-shedding and ANC misrule. It isn’t. It’s the EFF’s first big election rally ahead of 2024, and it will force South Africa’s other parties to hastily throw together their own updated sales pitches...

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