Politics of pulling strings and puppetry

07 February 2016 - 02:00
By Peter Bruce

Every respectable political commentator in South Africa should be talking today about the merits of Julius Malema's war on the Gupta family's toxic "business" and media empire. I have my own doubts about whether anything they do or own is legitimate. But once you decide that, say, one newspaper is illegitimate, for whatever reason, where does it stop?Julius, though, has once again changed our political discourse and it is about time Jacob Zuma's oily ties with the Guptas were on the table.

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