If Moyane’s motive was not to improve the service or its business of tax collection, we have to ask what his real motives might be.
Qwelane’s utterances are at last being examined legally to decide whether his insistence on his right to “free expression” has caused harm.
It is like a tall drink of cool water on a sweltering day seeing our MPs do what they are mandated (and paid) to do.
The court has instructed government to consider how projects would contribute to climate change.
The inquiry is a reminder that democratic mechanisms are there, to be used by South Africans to drag some kind of accountability out of the executive.
As the South African state has become more authoritarian, it has also increasingly come to believe that the law is there to be bent to its own ends.
Nowhere else is it so evident that the ANC is its own opposition – and probably its own worst enemy.
The politics surrounding transformation obfuscate the urgency of South Africa’s socioeconomic malaise.
Beyond the language of price-fixing and collusion, this type of behaviour by bankers amounts to taking food off the tables of South Africans.
The president is fighting for power. And it’s not just against his deputy for the future leadership of the ANC.