‘I am nobody’s experiment,’ says DA’s new chief whip

Siviwe Gwarube says she worked hard to be appointed the party’s first black female chief whip

21 August 2022 - 00:00

Looking back on her journey from a poor village to the second most powerful position in the DA parliamentary caucus, Siviwe Gwarube remembers how as a young girl she would travel from KwaMdingi outside King William’s Town to the prestigious Kingsridge High School for Girls in the town centre...

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