TOM EATON | We all wonder what Naledi Pandor means, now we know it’s ‘open to interpretation’
Our minister of international relations and co-operation’s new get out of jail free card is to label contentious issues as ambiguous
28 June 2023 - 21:06
As someone who has been an ANC cabinet minister for 19 years, Naledi Pandor is a master of obscuring all sorts of inconvenient truths. In fact the only time she’s made herself abundantly clear in recent years was when she hastily swallowed her condemnation of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But this week she offered new and startling insights into our recent past, specifically the 2021 riots. ..
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