Science is amazingly accurate, especially when it comes to pinpointing cellphone locations, writes Toby Shapshak I never thought I would ever say this, but SA owes a thank you to Eskom CEO Brian Molefe. Not for stopping rolling blackouts, but for giving us the #SaxonwoldShebeen meme last week. It was just the good joke the country needed.SA has been a little punch-drunk lately with the dizzying pace of political scandals and corruption uncovered since Thuli Madonsela’s State of Capture report was finalised.A legal masterstroke prevented President Jacob Zuma or Madonsela’s lily-livered successor, Busisiwe Mkhwebane, from quashing it. Madonsela adeptly used the powers given by the constitution — and confirmed by the constitutional court’s Nkandla judgment.Madonsela is this generation’s Desmond Tutu, a figure of unbreakable integrity whose feisty defiance against the powerful and corrupt is an inspiration to us all.But it was Molefe’s attempt to explain the 58 calls between him and Aja...
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