The spy tapes have been a part of a situation in which one legal dodge led to another, and everyone ended up compromised.
Culture can hold people together, providing a sense of belonging. Like religion, it gives traditional communities a set of social rules to live by.
Deprived of breadwinners, the lives of the families of the Marikana massacre victims are on hold while the Farlam commission continues.
The commission, under the leadership of Judge Willie Seriti, is barely off the ground, two years after its inception.
What South Africa needs is an approach that places violence against women at the heart of social policy.
Had Zimbabwe enjoyed a truly free and fair election this week, Zanu-PF might well have won.
Cosatu’s relevance is ebbing away and if this trend continues, it will be a federation for unions of petit-bourgeois government employees.
The scope for sleaze, patronage and outright corruption, of course, is proportional to the scale of the spending.
Pius Langa’s legacy cannot be reduced to a historical exhibit in the museum of an achieved democracy.
The arms deal may be old news, but corruption is at the centre of the national agenda as never before.