TOM EATON | You can delete your tweets, but TV footage is harder to erase

History can’t always be relied on to absolve you in just the way you want, especially not when you’re Floyd Shivambu and you’ve just landed a lucrative job with the guy you compared to a thieving mass murderer

28 October 2024 - 21:19 By TOM EATON

A few years ago a young man stood up in front of parliament and the whole of South Africa and told us that Jacob Zuma was a dictator on par with Idi Amin who would end up killing members of his party in a desperate bid to stay out of prison. ..

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