JZ’s muddlenomics … and other stories

What’s in the Mail & Guardian newspaper tomorrow …

• JZ’s muddlenomics got you confused? Us too. M&G editor Nic Dawes attempts to unravel the mixed messages of austerity, growth and frivolous spending and asks where we are headed.
• This is how we roll: The inside story of the R370-million party for 30 000 international youth, courtesy of the National Youth Development Agency. And, of course, you, the South African citizen. Mandy Roussow reports
• Reality TV: Will 13 top executives at the South African Broadcasting Corporation finally lose their jobs? Glynnis Underhill finds out if the tribe really has spoken.
• Why a literary prize-winner fears black people … and how her adoring fans have come out in full support.
• Not really the news: The M&G, Robert Gumede and the SABC news story that will land the public broadcaster in front of the Broadcasting Complaints Commission to explain how they got it so wrong.
• My neighbour, the mine dump: In the second in our series on acid mine drainage, we take you to two Gauteng suburbs choking on polluted water.
• BEE and the white beast: Andile Mngxitama on how what was supposed to give us economic equality has ended up being a legitimate way for whites to continue thieving the economy.
• Going glam: When Bulawayo and Benoni-bred champion swimmer Charlene Wittstock marries Prince Albert of Monaco next July, she’s going to have to hang up those tracksuits.
• Booktown: In the middle of the Karoo, Richmond goes literary and bibliophiles go mad.