BYTES FROM THE DIGITAL WORLD
EDITOR’S LUNCHBOX: Mugabe faces up to a new year as SACP flays Zuma
Zimbabwe’s big boss wears a blazer ablaze with pictures of himself, while the South African Communist Party trashes President Jacob Zuma’s idea of radical transformation
Stories of Note Bytes from the digital world It seems the only people not at Zimbabwean tyrant Robert Mugabe’s 93rd birthday bash were the fashion police. Just in case anyone was in any doubt about who was being celebrated, the evergreen president wore a blazer emblazoned with images of himself. My milk tart (melktert) brings all the boys to the yard: Monday is National Milk Tart day. Perhaps it’s not surprising that there should be a Facebook group dedicated to this quintessentially South African pudding. The group, "My milktart brings all the boys to the yard", is a place to share all things related to milk tarts, but one of its main activities is reviews, which it takes quite seriously. The South African Communist Party didn’t mince their words on why President Jacob Zuma and his allies are so keen on "radical economic transformation". To think that despite the cutting remarks, SACP general secretary Blade Nzimande still has to sit with Zuma in the Cabinet. In My Opinion Matters ...
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