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2020 through the political lense - PPE corruption, Covid-19 scandals and high profile court battles
By Baldwin Ndaba
The year 2020 is the year most South Africans would like to forget about - quickly.
In South Africa, local politicians; high profile business people, the Zondo Commission; Eskom and notably the VBS Mutual Bank equally competed with Covid-19 for headline news this year.
While the outbreak happened in Wuhan, China in November last year - South Africans were warned to be on the alert since January - but locally it was the battle between former president Jacob Zuma and the Commission of Inquiry into allegations of state capture chaired by deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo that caught the media attention.