Stories of Note Bytes from the digital world The standing of SA’s Keystone Cops, who like to call themselves the Hawks, has not been raised by their uncovering of an "Anti-State Capture Death Squad Alliance", based on requests from a 23-year-old for R60m from mining moguls. Cosatu-aligned unions do not want President Jacob Zuma to address the official May 1 celebrations taking place in the Free State next week. In My Opinion Matters of debate SA’s Mpho Ngoepe has become the first Africa-born player to feature in a Major League Baseball game. He made his top-flight debut with the Pittsburgh Pirates on Wednesday evening against the Chicago Cubs. Nowhere has the ANC proposed a radical economic recovery plan. So, while the governing party harks on about reform in public spending, Zuma’s new finance ministry is oblivious to the fact that our economy is shrinking and haemorrhaging money at the same time, writes Beverley Schäfer. Finding Alpha The long and the short of the markets The waiv...

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