‘You not going to stick up this Gov’t because of nastiness’

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‘You not going to stick up this Gov’t because of nastiness’

Minister of Local Government and Rural Development Desmond McKenzie has signalled that persons who believe that dumping garbage in the nation’s drains and gullies will generate more jobs will be left sorely disappointed. “Not over my dead body....

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