Minister of minerals & energy Gwede Mantashe is unlikely to expand in any detail on his assertion that NGOs operating in SA and supported by international philanthropies are also funded by the CIA, the American spy agency.

It is hard to elaborate on nonsense, so we should not expect anything beyond what he has already said: that this is all part of the US’s “deliberate programme to block development in a poor country like SA”...

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