DESNÉ MASIE: Could the ‘cash for curtains’ scandal be the UK’s Nkandla?
It is possible that the decorating issue could play a part in Boris Johnson’s downfall
02 May 2021 - 23:16
I have noticed many parallels with SA’s Zumafication under Boris Johnson’s UK administration.
There has been wide-scale “cadre deployment” — to the cabinet, of long-standing Johnsonian loyalists such as Priti Patel, Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng, and to the House of Lords, of the prime minister's brother, Jo Johnson, and Boris-bestie Zac Goldsmith, who lost his seat in the 2019 election...
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