A Tribute to Magashe Titus Mafolo – The Mail & Guardian

A Tribute to Magashe Titus Mafolo – The Mail & Guardian

As a pipsqueak who was a relatively new communicator to the reputedly Apollonian Presidency of Thabo Mbeki circa 2002, I finally yielded to the importunate urgings of Bheki Khumalo, the then spokesperson, screwing up enough courage to meet the political advisor whom the former wished for me to know. I shuffled into a sparsely furnished office luminous with the presence of a bespectacled, imposing figure whose appearance evoked a spectre of a sta…