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WATCH | Meet Tyson Ngubeni: the funnyman behind Bob O’Connor

A fictional American news correspondent has been having South Africans in stitches on social media, but the man behind the fiction is even more fascinating, writes Pearl Boshomane Tsotetsi

13 September 2020 - 00:00 By Pearl Boshomane Tsotetsi

Bob O’Connor, the country’s most famous American news correspondent, turns 48 tomorrow...

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