
Over the New Year holiday at the start of 2023, the Secretary-General of the ANC, Fikile Mbalula, was snapped wearing a white suit criss-crossed with images of rail-tracks and sleepers. With corruption investigations into the Republic’s Public Rail Agency, Prasa, ongoing, it was no surprise that the picture of the politician was soon dubbed ‘The Devil wears Prasa’.
Three years later the clownish politician found himself at the centre of another storm. This time he was alleged to have sought assistance from a Russian agent for the 2026 Local Government Elections, while thanking Moscow for its support in the May 2024 event.
The Russian agent, code name 9477, and his translator…
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