The Week That Was
Gerald Potash Hello again, At last Cyril is showing some backbone. Last week he gave the Public Protector, Busisiwe Mkhwebane 10 days to let him know, in writing, why he…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, Non-SA news very seldom (other than sport, of course) makes it into these newsletters but it’s hard to start a newsletter at this time without mentioning…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash Hello again, If I asked you to guess what happens 75 times every day in SA I am not too sure how many of you would actually guess…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash Hello again, Zandile Christmas Mafe did something that Guy Fawkes couldn’t do. He brought the Houses of Parliament down. Our Parliament went up in smoke on Sunday night…
The Week That Was
| Gerald Potash | Hello again, On Tuesday Zuma was back in court and in fact won a leave to appeal from the High Court to appeal the decision that…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash Hello again, Yesterday the High Court ruled that Jacob Zuma must go back to jail. Further the court ruled that the three months that JZ has spent careering…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash Hello again, I certainly agree with Peter Bruce who wrote just more than a week ago that any self-respecting President would immediately resign or at least call a…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash Hello again, No you’re not making a mistake. It’s not Thursday but this is the last of my newsletters for a few weeks. My plans have changed and…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash Hello again, The horse-trading has begun. 66 municipalities are “hung” i.e. there are no outright winners to form the municipal councils and coalitions have become the new buzz-word…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash Hello again, There really should only be one story this week and it is all about the municipal elections held countrywide on Monday. The feature of this election,…