Tracking campaign efforts & top ANC official fight for their political lives

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Our big stories on this week's episode of Sunday Times Politics Weekly with Mike Siluma include the factors that have affected the 2021 municipal elections so far, including; mounting political killings, empty promises and the seeming eradication of Covid-19 as a health concern at most political rallies. 
We also try to gauge the temperature inside the ANC, where two of its most powerful leaders, Eastern Cape Premier Oscar Mabuyane and Former Minister of Health Zweli Mkhize, are fighting for their political lives, and why they are desperate to clear their names.
21 Oct 2021 English South Africa Politics · News Commentary

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