Shivambu needs a bit of luck — and loads of humility

Sometimes we fail to learn — not because the teacher has nothing to impart but because the log in our eye makes it impossible to see what is plain

22 June 2025 - 00:00

After Floyd Shivambu publicly clashed with Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla, the daughter of MK Party leader Jacob Zuma, we all knew his goose was cooked. But this pontiff, imbued with so-called “superior logic”,  somehow just couldn’t see it coming...

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