Zuma may be a team player but why is the amoral, uneducated crooner still pulling the strings?

25 September 2022 - 00:01

During the frenetic run-up to the consequential ANC conference in Polokwane in December 2007, I asked a friend over lunch why he thought Jacob Zuma was an attractive proposition for president...

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