Bruce’s List: A guide to informed reads.As a newspaper, The Times has come into its own under the editorship of Stephen Haw. It was initially launched in an effort to boost subscriptions to the Sunday Times (you got The Times for free if you subscribed to the Sunday Times) but Haw has managed to stand it up as a real newspaper in its own right. It is a good, serious read and more than enough competition to the bigger and better-established general dailies in SA. I first felt a disturbance in the force, from Haw, after another giggling performance in parliament by President Jacob Zuma before the Nkandla issue was settled. “What’s so funny?” read The Times’ front page lead headline, which ran across a string of photos showing the president laughing at MPs trying to get him to tell the truth. It was inspired. And the same thing happened this morning, when Haw ran “In a world of his own” in the same space. This in response to Zuma’s preposterous assertion in the National Council of Prov...
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