The Week That Was
Gerald Potash Hello again, Not for the first time has Jacob Zuma virtually dominated our news this week. Quite unexpectedly he was granted medical parole on a Sunday afternoon, nogal,…
The Week That Was
Hello again, The front page story in the Sunday Times this week reads like a crime mystery thriller. Except it isn’t fiction. Six men have been arrested for the salying…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash Hello again Cyril’s presence at the Zondo Commission into State Capture was a huge disappointment. He was called as the very last witness after three years of the…
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 Can you believe it? The Master of Stalingrad-tactics has done it again! On Monday, at the start of the l-o-n-g delayed corruption, fraud, money laundering and…
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…