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.
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.
“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’
All of this week’s tumult traced back to the Guptas.
The mother’s anger has somehow been treated like a sinful indulgence, as though women are supposed to respond with a smile in the face of provocation.
Presumably out of the best of motives, World Bank’s investors have put money into a company whose behaviour looks like it is fleecing the poor.