Transport Minister Joe Maswanganyi might want a word with his speech writer. His address to the media after a lengthy meeting with the police and metered and e-hailing taxi services included an interesting injunction to the taxi operators, who are sometimes at violent loggerheads over securing passengers. According to a copy of the speech sent to the media, Maswanganyi said: "We also called on the affected parties to immediately seize acts of intimidation, disorder and violence which engulfed the industry." Nothing pussy about Treasury Twenty-two mice scurrying around Britain’s finance ministry have fallen foul of the chief mouser to the Treasury since he took up residence a year ago with a mandate to reduce the government department’s rodent population. Reuters reports that Gladstone — a black cat named after long-serving 19th century prime minister and chancellor William Gladstone — joined the Treasury from a rescue home a year ago and has almost 10,000 followers on photo-sharing ...
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