EDITOR’S LUNCHBOX: 2016 — year of the middle finger and keeping generals awake
Antisocial lessons of the year: what to do when confronted by spoilsport law and policy — and how to keep a bevy of toadying generals busy all night
Stories of note Bytes from the digital world A drunk Kim Jong Un made his generals stay up all night writing letters of apology for failing to produce even one military satellite. Nowhere for Faith Muthambi to hide over the mess she created at the SABC, but the communications minister still has a go at blaming others. St. Helena sends SOS to South African Airways. In My Opinion Matters of debate Here is the Financial Mail’s Newsmaker of the Year who succeeded in the most challenging of all cabinet positions without any of the usual support structures on which the position relies. Carol Paton argues that worsening the performance of the debt-laden Eskom is that its surplus is also set to grow enormously as units from Medupi and Kusile come on stream from now to 2022, and a nuclear plant is envisaged by 2027. Jonathan Jansen says 2016 will be remembered for entrenching the culture of impunity. Whether it is the president of the republic or a senior executive manager of the SABC, it is...
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