EDITORIAL: A conspiracy theorist equal to Donald Trump
02 February 2021 - 19:31
As far as purveyors of conspiracy theories go, former president Jacob Zuma is right up there with the best of them. He may even outdo Donald Trump.
“No politician in history, and I say this with great surety, has been treated worse or more unfairly,” the then US president said in 2017. It’s possible that Trump forgot to put “US” before history. So Zuma may well still be the ultimate martyr. He likes to see himself as a liberation hero who has been unfairly targeted for pushing for “radical economic transformation”...
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