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From convict to cabinet: South Africa’s new sports minister promotes gangland motorsport
JOHANNESBURG — South Africa’s new minister of sports, arts and culture robbed his first bank at the tender age of 16, but notes that it “wasn’t as glamorous as the movies make it.” Gayton McKenzie’s career has followed an unusual trajectory from rags to …