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The DA's plan for 2024 - Eating the Curate's Egg

There is nothing being done in Nelson Mandela Bay that can’t be replicated elsewhere

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Robert Duigan
Mar 14, 2022
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The Curate, not wishing to be rude about the food, insists the rotten egg before him is “good, in parts”.

There is a battle for the soul of South Africa. So says Ramaphosa, so says Helen Zille. I disagree. It is not a battle for the soul of South Africa, but for the souls of its governing elite, whose wards, the people, are seen as an inconvenient mass o…

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