Podcast Party The Burning Platform

Is the GNU the solution to SA's problems?

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Classically-liberal South African YouTuber Sihle Ngobese AKA Big Daddy Liberty takes a hot seat on The Burning Platform to give his take on some of the week's political stories and interrogate whether the Government of National Unity (GNU) is the solution to the issues South Africa currently faces.
26 Sep English Explicit South Africa Politics · News

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