Opinion

Taking tea with a Shakespearean idiot

07 February 2021 - 00:02 By Sunday Times Editorial

It wasn't so much the hyped "tea" of Jacob Zuma with Julius Malema that caught the imagination than the apparent peace pipe, if not anything worse, they seemed to smoke. It was Zuma's ANC that expelled Malema and declared him an "incorrigible militant". Malema's EFF lit the proverbial fire under Zuma's behind in parliament in his last years as a president. So the "tea" is a shifting of political tectonic plates...

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