KGAUGELO MASWENENG | EFF and Floyd: obituary or renaissance?

At the height of the EFF's existence it was a champion of the people

19 August 2024 - 05:14

In 2020 while on assignment in the Free State, I was a passenger in the bakkie of a white man who was driving around his large farm showing us the devastation caused by a fire that had killed his livestock. He randomly said: “You know, back in the day this wouldn’t be OK — us driving together. But things are different now, I see how my kids bring their black friends to the farm and how they relate to each other, it’s quite something...

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