To offset the blow from the first VAT increase in democratic SA back in 2018, state capture accused, former finance minister Malusi Gigaba quoted US rapper and poet Kendrick Lamar, saying: “We gon’ be right, we gon’ be alright”. 

It was a tumultuous time in SA politics as the country reeled from the state capture hangover and the recall of its second president, now MK party frontman Jacob Zuma, just a week earlier. ..

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