The agonising choice between plague and famine

24 May 2020 - 00:00 By peter bruce

By now President Cyril Ramaphosa must be regretting appointing Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma minister for co-operative governance & traditional affairs (Cogta). Given that he beat her for the leadership of the ANC, he had to give her something. International relations would have been good, with generous dollar subsistence allowances like she once enjoyed before the Guptas stepped in to help...

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