Friday, December 5, 2025

The rise and rise of Moeti Mohwasa

If about 20 years ago anybody had said to Moeti Mohwasa that he would one day be a powerful minister of state driving around surrounded by men carrying guns in cars blazing with blue lights so that traffic could make way for him, Mohwasa would have called for a psychiatric evaluation of such a person.

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