Some progress on the Trump front
But what to offer Potus when we see him?
04 May 2025 - 00:00
Hardly had I finished reading a column the other day about how cellphone group MTN’s big business in Iran might make it impossible for its chair, Mcebisi Jonas, to act as a special emissary to the US to fix the ragged relations between Pretoria and Washington, than news dropped that Jonas had, in fact, already been on the phone to Donald Trump, the capricious US president...
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