The government is using an alleged robbery attempt near a boutique hotel in Houghton, Johannesburg, to justify providing taxpayer-funded protection for presidential hopeful Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma. Police Minister Fikile Mbalula confirmed the incident, but would not say whether that was the reason the state is providing presidential bodyguards to Dlamini-Zuma. This story appears in full on the Sunday Times

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