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16 October 2022 - 00:00

By Barney Mthombothi

Besides gifting us with the depravity of the Jacob Zuma presidency, the notorious ANC Polokwane conference in 2007 also produced two other bounties meant to ease him seamlessly into power, writes Barney Mthombothi.

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