Video killed the radio star
This mampara’s star was waning. Ukhozi FM had fired him from his maskandi show for misconduct. He had set up an online radio station, but it failed to take off. When he heard that another son of Nkandla was fighting jail time, he decided to join Edward in keeping guard at the homestead gates.
Other prominent backers of Jacob Zuma took a back seat as violence escalated following Zuma’s arrest, but Mchunu appointed himself # Free Zuma campaigner-in-chief, taking videos of himself calling on “Africans ”to rise in Zuma’s defence.
He flew to Joburg to deliver a “state of the nation address” — which was more incitement — before boarding a private jet back to Durban. All captured on video. The footage has been used to keep this mampara in a cold Joburg cell, where he belongs.
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