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Vaccine rollout review, Zuma's authoritarian push and should Eskom increase prices?

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Nicholas Lorimer, Sara Gon and Hermann Pretorius discuss how the vaccine rollout is going so far, if Zuma is laying the groundwork for the undermining of democracy and if Eskom should increase electricity prices.

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22 Feb 2021 8AM English South Africa News Commentary · Politics

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