Stories of Note Bytes from the digital world   ANC stalwarts Trevor Manuel and Barbara Hogan have joined AngloGold Ashanti chairman Sipho Pityana’s Save South Africa civil rights group calling for President Jacob Zuma to resign.   Pityana coalition calls on Zuma to quit According to SARS, refunds for only 5% of taxpayers are delayed by the need to verify their details.   SARS explains refund delays and extra admin for irate taxpayers

The average age of this year’s Nobel prize winners is 72. Physics laureates, now typically a group of men in their late sixties, used to have an average age of 47.  Why are Nobel Prize winners getting older?   In My Opinion Matters of debate   EFF leader Julius Malema’s offer to merge his party with the ANC is a sign of weakness, writes Peter Bruce. Before the August 3 local elections, Malema said he’d be disappointed with anything less than a tripling of the 6.3% the EFF won on its first outing as a party, in the 2014 general election. He didn’t ...

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