Opinion

We have to heed our expensive lesson in flawed deputies

14 February 2021 - 00:00 By Makhudu Sefara

Nothing scars a nation more than a great leader who gives his people hope, only to be succeeded by a deeply flawed character who not only decimates the hope but whose relationship with truth is irredeemably pathological...

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