In Cloud Zumaland
MKP leader Jacob Zuma sticks to his well-worn shibboleths on the stolen election, blacks not being free and other strange ideas. Our political editor Sibongakonke Shoba spoke to him
24 November 2024 - 00:00
Nine years ago, then president Jacob Zuma invited editors and senior reporters of the mainstream media to a lunch “engagement” at the Sefako Makgatho presidential guesthouse in Pretoria. As he walked into the dining area, he enquired about “the table of the Sunday Crimes”. For about an hour, he complained to this newspaper’s then editors about how we were reporting about him — “especially Mondli Makhanya and that Hogarth”...
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