The past week was particularly bad for business and consumers who experienced repeated power cuts across the country. Gautrain’s head offices in Johannesburg, where one of the country’s biggest infrastructure projects is being planned, experienced three power cuts on Monday between 8am and 8pm, writes Jocelyn Newmarch.

Gauteng’s top official, provincial Director General Mogopodi Mokoena, co-owned a company with Brett Kebble’s murderer, Clint Nassif, and accepted a R250 000 cheque from him. Mokoena’s links with Nassif were among issues raised by Glenn Agliotti in an affidavit the National Prosecuting Authority submitted to court last week in response to Jackie Selebi’s application to block his prosecution.

Call it fatalism, resignation or sheer naivety, but Osman Adam (46) says he doesn’t waste much time pondering over what he will do when armed thugs break down his door. A highly probable eventuality, considering that just two weeks ago the previous owner of the store he now manages in Kroondal, died in a pool of blood in the doorway in which he now stands.

Terror, anger and squalor best describe Skielik, an informal settlement of fewer than 50 shack dwellings on the outskirts of Swartruggens in the North West. Skielek which lies between the main road and railway line to Swartruggens, was the scene of a brutal gun attack recently.

Controversial former Cape Town mayor Nomaindia Mfeketo, who ruled the city between 2002 and 2006 and left the post after unauthorised spending of R275,6-million and irregular spending of R54,09-million, could be in the running to rule the Mother City again.

With the imminent launch of three new subscription broadcasting services and e.tv’s 24-hour news channel, the poaching war for experienced broadcasting professionals has well and truly begun. Rumours abound about who will be the next to jump ship to join rival broadcasters, but one of the latest to take the plunge is former e.tv news reporter Macintosh Nzimande.

In last week’s court application to block his prosecution, Jackie Selebi swore he was never “involved in any bribery and/or corruption”. Why, then, did he lie to the Mail & Guardian about meeting Brett Kebble, who bankrolled bribes Glenn Agliotti allegedly paid him? Before the M&G‘s first exposé in May 2006, Selebi admitted in an interview that Agliotti was his “friend, finish and klaar”.

It is no accident that a meeting held on Wednesday to commemorate the life of Yunus Mahomed was attended by scores of luminaries from the African National Congress and the United Democratic Front. Current and former Cabinet ministers paid tribute to their comrade, who died of a heart attack.