‘The Phala Phala Heist’, starring the president and the domestic worker, directed by Guy Ritchie

12 June 2022 - 00:00 By Kwanele Ndlovu

 This past week felt like we were living in a low-budget Guy Ritchie-type movie about hollow furniture, a domestic worker, a couple of crawling idiots and a spy. When the news of the “Phala Phala heist” broke, I couldn’t fathom how a man could stand before us and deliver the state of the nation address a few days after losing that much money, speak with a twang, and not start crying...

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