South Africa: Joining the Dots - Pravin Gordhan, Floyd Shivambu and the Dodgy Origins of the 'Indian Cabal' Narrative

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In April 2017, Pravin Gordhan addressed a packed audience in St George's Cathedral in Cape Town, a week after President Jacob Zuma had fired him as finance minister, a move that signalled South Africa had been well and truly captured. Gordhan urged the crowd not to give up hope and to 'join the dots' in understanding what was taking place. He became a moral authority to many - and the object of a concerted smear campaign. In this unauthorised biography, Jonathan Ancer and Chris Whitfield take a magnifying glass to someone at the centre of South Africa's most tumultuous period and try to understand the man behind the public image.

In October 2018, EFF deputy president Floyd Shivambu decided to pick away at a long-standing South African sore: the relationship between African and Indian.

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