Opinion

From water jug to cold stone jug — now ANC must find the guts to put more comrades behind bars

20 September 2020 - 00:03 By barney mthombothi

Andile Lungisa, a lowly Port Elizabeth councillor with a penchant for self-promotion, hogged national headlines this week when he finally made his way to prison to begin a two-year sentence for assaulting a fellow councillor with a water jug...

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