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Upping ante on Phala Phala shenanigans

POISONED BARBS

THE polite pretence that Cyril Ramaphosa is a trustworthy man may, at last, be winding towards an end.

When an archbishop and the party’s only vaguely successful previous leader both imply that the president may be an equivocating money launderer, at least one thing is certain: Ramaphosa has failed in his desperate attempts to assuage public scepticism over the theft of $850 000, paid to him in cash and then hidden in a sofa on his farm.

Leading the charge is former president

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