South Africa: Malema's New War Game - #paybackthe Money Meets #guptasmustgo

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Now that Jacob Zuma has agreed to pay back the money, what's an opposition party to do? How about declare war on the President's BFF's, and everyone currently in their employ? Enter a new hash-tag into your Twitter feed: #GuptasMustGo. By RICHARD POPLAK.

This is the sort of story you have to start in medias res, mostly because the moment of impact defines everything that occurred before the explosion, and everything that followed after it. I need you to picture President and Commander in Chief of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), Julius Sello Malema, with a full compliment of his Central Command Teammates sitting alongside him in the cramped and heaving EFF press conference centre. I want you to imagine Malema healthfully robust with residual Christmas cheer, leaning forward in his seat, finger wagging.

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