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What a week for the emergence of strange political bedfellows. No, I don’t mean the EFF’s "fraud", I mean Floyd Shivambu’s contortions to extricate himself from the fact that his brother received R16m from the piggy bank, VBS Mutual, for "consulting services". I wonder how this young man escaped the clutches of those other great consulting firms, Trillian Capital, McKinsey or Bain. He clearly learnt a lot from the three’s invoicing capabilities. Poor Floyd. No amount of verbal gymnastics can extricate one from the fact that your brother received money from a bank which you inexplicably tried to shield from central bank oversight. And that your brother seems to have passed some of that cash along rather generously. I am fascinated by the weird political hook-ups in SA and the US this week because no matter how many times you tell them, politicians don’t seem to get it that marriages of convenience never work. You need principle. Last week Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini and civil socie...
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