She told the audience how, when newly-elected President Thabo Mbeki called his top party members together back in 1999, in order to hand out the ministerial portfolios, she felt that the only thing she could be sure of was that she would no longer be Premier of the Free State.
As the evening dragged on, Matsepe-Casaburri decided to retire to a side room of the event venue for a little snooze.
So when Mbeki came to handing out the communications portfolio, Matsepe-Casaburri was blithely asleep in the next room, causing some confusion in the ANC ranks, as all potential candidates had been asked to attend
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