EDITOR’S LUNCHBOX: Funeral snub number two for Jacob Zuma
Bank of Baroda’s notice period ends on Friday, leaving no SA banks willing to service Gupta businesses, and US case accusing Standard Bank of being in a cartel is dropped
Stories of Note Bytes from the digital world Ahmed Kathrada’s funeral is the second at which President Jacob Zuma has been snubbed. The late Makhenkesi Stofile, a former sports minister and South African ambassador to Germany, instructed his family on his deathbed not to invite Zuma to his funeral. Something forgotten in the sudden rush by Zuma to replace Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan with someone more pliable is that Bank of Baroda’s notice period ends on Friday, leaving no South African banks willing to service the Gupta family’s businesses. In My Opinion Matters of debate Of all the Rivonia Trialists and ANC stalwarts, Ahmed Kathrada is singularly identified with the philosophy of nonracialism. Unlike Nelson Mandela, Kathrada’s greatness came less from brilliance and rather from his ordinariness: his compassion for ordinary people and our shared humaneness. Peter Bruce shares a typically incoherent intelligence report circulating in newsrooms not long after Gordhan’s recall was...
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