Stories of Note Bytes from the digital world Hlaudi Motsoeneng — just like his protector, Jacob Zuma — is being asked to pay the costs of a lawsuit from his own pocket. KwaZulu-Natal premier Willies Mchunu denies he wants out. But it might be that he was always going to make way for ANC provincial chairman Sihle Zikalala. Spare a thought for Russia’s economy minister. Pravin Gordhan would suffer the same fate — if some of his enemies have their way. In My Opinion Matters of debate Of the three executives, Brian Molefe, Jimi Matthews and Nazeem Howa, who recently resigned, Matthews’s departure was the biggest climbdown. Only a few days before he walked out, he wrote an affidavit claiming that if SABC strongman Hlaudi Motsoeneng left the national broadcaster there would be financial consequences, instability and loss of investor confidence, market share and trade secrets. Michael Spicer traces the relationship between government and business from the apartheid to date, breaking it dow...

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