Faustian bargains are the order of the day when producing news.
Cosatu seems to have forgotten the role of the unions in bringing down apartheid.
Understandably, then, the battle continues in Parliament, in the form of a no-confidence vote.
The president has dumped those he doesn’t need anymore, including Cosatu and the SACP. He knows where his support lies, and he will pander to it.
The director general of the treasury, Lungisa Fuzile, has given a shining example of what a public servant should be like.
The ANC must take responsibility for constructing a class of people who depend on corruption in the state for their own advancement.
“In this new phase of our struggle for democracy and freedom, the voices of giants like Ahmed ‘Kathy’ Kathrada sound ever more imperatively."
‘He wasn’t afraid to speak to power’
Those who fought a long, hard war for a nonracist, nonsexist country cannot have imagined that one day they would be asking the president to resign.
All of this week’s tumult traced back to the Guptas.