Opinion

Tainted pro-Zuma women give the gender struggle a bad name with their spurious resort to 'sexism' to defend incompetence

16 June 2019 - 00:07 By ranjeni munusamy

I heard them before I saw them. The media centre at the ANC's 54th national conference at Nasrec was pulsating after the announcement of the election results of the top six positions. Journalists were hammering out stories about the dramatic events leading to the crowning of Cyril Ramaphosa. Foreign correspondents gushed on international networks about the significance of "the rise of Nelson Mandela's favoured successor"...

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