"Spare yourself the energy of mistakenly ascribing such earnestness to the policy conference."
"There is an interesting battle emerging between the department of home affairs and Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba"
"The public protector wants to rob a democratically-elected government of a central function."
"We need people in public power who are ethically minded and technically competent"
"With someone as incompetent as Shaun Abrahams around, you have to be very naive to think the NPA does its work without fear or favour."
"The ugly reality, however, is that political violence has subsided since 1994 but has not been eliminated"
Even those fighting the Guptas and Zuma are merely positioning themselves for proximity to the leftovers at the trough.
"We must ask difficult questions about the underlying drivers of violence if we are to eliminate gratuitous violence in society"
"If we are honest, a key appointment is not merely, or at all, about what Zuma wants"
"It was a bald-faced lie. Nothing in his body language suggested an attempt at humour"