TOM EATON | Only Bester could best Eskom, and the ANC is smugly loving the distraction
What’s more, G4S is a private company — cue the self-righteousness seen in fine form at Wednesday’s hearings
12 April 2023 - 21:38
The escape and re-arrest of Thabo Bester might remain a supreme indictment of our prison system, but for the rest of the ANC government it’s a beautifully shiny distraction sent straight from political heaven...
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