Stories of Note Bytes from the digital world ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe told foreign journalists the ruling party is unable to remove President Jacob Zuma because of a resolution adopted in Polokwane which states the president of the ANC should be the party’s presidential candidate — and it will be easier to recall Zuma after the ANC’s December conference. Presidential hopeful Mathews Phosa says the entire Cabinet should be held responsible for the "worst crime" against the people of SA since apartheid, perpetrated by Jacob Zuma and the Gupta family. In my opinion Matters of debate The quickest fix is the one the ANC would find hardest to swallow: privatise the state’s assets and to do it by auction, writes Peter Bruce. Just as the ANC was afflicted by what it called "the sins of incumbency", so, too, Cosatu leaders fell victim to the seduction of power and privilege. Finding Alpha The long and the short of the markets Bookrunners for the sale of UK bank Barclays’s 34% of ...

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