EDITOR’S LUNCHBOX: What do the SABC and SA’s mining sector have in common?
Both have been subjected to policies built on a numbers game and zero common sense
Stories of Note Bytes from the digital world While trying to find R2.3bn that South African Airways needs to repay UK-bank Standard Chartered Bank, its board is also battling to find chairwoman Dudu Myeni, who has not pitched for eight meetings. President Jacob Zuma, in a late-night meeting in 2009 attended by Rajesh Gupta‚ asked then deputy director-general in the department of minerals and energy Jacinto Rocha to help his son Duduzane wherever he could. In My Opinion Matters of debate Justice Malala can vouch for the authenticity of the leaked Gupta e-mails because they include correspondence between him and the Guptas’ London spin doctors, Bell Pottinger. Tim Cohen looks at the perils of good intentions in Hlaudi Motsoeneng’s 90% local music quota for the SABC and Mosebenzi Zwane’s 30% black mining ownership. Finding Alpha The long and the short of the markets The problem with the Guptas’ capture of the state is that nothing the government produces can be trusted. Take the Mining...
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