TOM EATON | The DA has gifted RISE much more than the best PR guru ever could

The official opposition's decision to go after Songezo Zibi and his RISE Msanzi party is so strange

15 April 2024 - 21:27 By Tom Eaton

With the election now six weeks away it’s becoming harder not to see the campaign posters on the nation’s lampposts as a symbol of our politics: two-dimensional faces, turning this way and that in the prevailing breeze, just hanging around until they’re taken away and recycled...

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