Raymond Zondo and Jacob Zuma: The man from Ixopo vs the man from Nkandla

Two men, both born into rural poverty in KwaZulu-Natal and raised by their mothers to eventually occupy the highest offices in the land, nonetheless have little in common and might never have had to engage with one another — had not one of them, Raymond Zondo, become the implacable foe of the epochal corruption that the other, Jacob Zuma, presided over, writes Patrick Bulger

13 December 2020 - 00:00
By Patrick Bulger

Two men, both born into rural poverty in KwaZulu-Natal and raised by their mothers to eventually occupy the highest offices in the land, nonetheless have little in common and might never have had to engage with  one another — had not one of them, Raymond Zondo, become the implacable foe of the epochal  corruption that the other, Jacob Zuma, presided over, writes Patrick Bulger

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