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Marius Roodt and Nicholas Lorimer discuss the incredibly high salaries of government employees in South Africa. They also chat about the 38 million rands spent on a "call center" in a poor municipality and Dischem's "no whites letter".

7 Nov 2023 8AM English South Africa News Commentary · Politics

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