What's wrong with President Jacob Zuma? He keeps doing the right thing!

President Thabo Mbeki has suspended Vusi Pikoli, the National Director of Public Prosecutions, it was announced on Monday. Mokotedi Mpshe was named as acting director. The move to suspend Pikoli -- met with shock and disbelief by opposition political parties -- comes amid a bitter turf war between the police and the Scorpions that has escalated to Cabinet level.

Last Monday should have been formally named "National Corruption Day" or perhaps, better, "Corruption Awareness Day" -- which has the advantage of an appealingly apt acronym. But Monday's haul represented not so much a few bites as a trawler load.

Mo Shaik on Thursday told the Hefer commission that he would be happy to concede he had been wrong about Bulelani Ngcuka, as long as he could be shown to be wrong.

At the end of his testimony this week Maharaj told the Mail & Guardian that he had overwhelming grassroots support in the ANC.

Mac Maharaj tragically pawned his legacy as a leader of the struggle.

This week Maharaj again cut a tragic figure, but for a very different reason. There he was, on the witness stand at the Hefer commission, bumbling his way through what he must have known was nonsensical testimony. It was inevitable that under relentless cross-examination by the country's top lawyers, he would wilt.