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SA’s housing quandary

at the height of the electioneering season, politicians usually display the art of bamboozling voters to influence them to write down X next to the names of their political organisations on the ballot papers.

On campaign trails, the over-promising and sweet-talking politicians mislead voters, sparing no one from die-hard fans, opposition supporters, to sceptics, and the notoriously undecided fence-sitters.

Towards the tail-end of the recently-concluded local government elections, Fikile Mbalula, the ruling ANC’s head of elections, found himself on the wrong side of South

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