The Week That Was
Gerald Potash Hello again, On Friday the Constitutional Court handed down a judgement in the matter where Jacob Zuma had appealed his being sentenced for contempt of court and for…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash Hello again, So, after thinking about it and hinting at it and carefully considering his options, Ramaphosa actually made some cabinet changes on Thursday night. It took almost…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash Hello again, Pieter Mulder writing in Die Burger over the weekend (and before the NEC meeting) quotes “the President is in office but not in power”. The chaos…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash Hello again, On Friday the ANC security-cluster MP’s called the three Ministers, those of State Security, Defence and Police— Dlodlo, Mapisa-Nqakula & Cele—to account for their unpreparedness of…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash Hello again, Last week SA made international news because Jacob Zuma went to jail. This week SA made international news because of the rioting, flagrant looting and vandalism…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash Hello again, What would you have to do to get a third party to pay your expensive legal fees in a high-profile corruption case? Jacob Zuma, charged with…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash Hello again, There were two enormous concessions made by the Government this week (actually Thursday and Friday last week). Those concessions were the allowing of privately sourced electricity…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash Hello again, The weekend got off to some really good news when we learnt that Shamila Batohi, head of the NPA, has cracked her whip. The Gupta properties…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash Hello again, Our top story of the week is all about the Minister of Health, Dr Zweli Mkize. He is/was in line to take over from Ramaphosa to…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash Hello again, When it comes to Stalingrading Accused No 1 is in a class of his own. At last, yesterday he was in court to plead after almost…