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LETTER TO MAHLAMBA NDLOPFU: Sies for Sisisi’s creative accounting and the cat with crocodile tears

Bhekisisa Mncube · Daily Maverick
Published 6 Nov 2026, 11:17 pm·just now·1 min read
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It’s been a wild time for statecraft as a paper trail leads us to a minister’s game, dumbbells ring for JZ, Mbalula blubs, the head of the police pulls a Terminator and Carrim does that which is haram.

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