JUSTICE MALALA | All aboard the gravy train to Turin

We’re told South African has no money when the North West education MEC’s the trip to Italy suggests otherwise

17 March 2025 - 04:30

Please don’t tell me that South Africa has no money. Or that it is a poor country. Or that it needs to increase the rate of VAT to plug the huge debt hole it has created. Please don’t tell me these things because I will blow my top. ..

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