Paul Mashatile: Is the deputy president the ANC’s hollow man?
Paul Mashatile is everywhere. If he’s not speaking at just about every summit, he’s in the headlines for all the wrong reasons. Is the ANC’s former treasurer really plotting to oust his boss, as some say? Or is he being targeted himself? And does he have a viable plan to revive the economy, on which the ANC’s political hopes depend?
20 July 2023 - 05:03
If Jacob Zuma, as South Africa’s most notorious deputy president, was the country’s bogeyman from the word go, is the incumbent, Paul “Spokes” Mashatile, emerging as its hollow man?
Mashatile, 61, who cut his teeth as a political activist in Gauteng’s Alexandra township in the 1980s, has been Cyril Ramaphosa’s deputy for less than five months, but he’s quickly packed in enough controversy to last years...
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