From 'fellow South Africans' to 'it looks like Hiroshima': 2020 in quotes

2020 will go down in history as the year in which a deadly pandemic went hitchhiking around the globe. But the coronavirus was not the only momentous event to shake our planet. Here's a chronological collection of who said what in an apocalyptic 12 months, selected by Jonathan Ancer

27 December 2020 - 00:00 By Jonathan Ancer

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