Some ministers a bit too happy to wield total control without the nuisance of a bill of rights

07 June 2020 - 00:00 By Barney Mthombothi

Gwede Mantashe, the national chair of the ANC who moonlights as President Cyril Ramaphosa's erratic minerals & energy minister, said something the other day that, thanks to the all-consuming power of the pandemic, passed almost unnoticed...

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