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The Shadowy world of SA political influencers

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Nicholas Lorimer and Makone Maja discuss the growing sophistication of online influence campaigns on South African social media. They also chat about the new minister of Social development Dina Pule and Thabo Mbeki trying to rescue SA-US relations.

2 Jul 11AM English South Africa News Commentary · Politics

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