Stories of note Bytes from the digital world Parliament may need to apply Police Minister Fikile Mbalula’s advice to police to "crush balls", to Mbalula himself, to get him answer questions about who paid for his family’s R680,000 Dubai 2016 New Year’s holiday, while he was sports minister. People who are miserable on Monday have lots of company. It’s the worst day of the week for millions, according to researchers at the University of Vermont complex systems center, who analyse Twitter messages for happiness sentiment. In my opinion Matters of debate New interim Eskom CEO Sean Maritz’s first action on Friday was to suspend the head of the power utility’s legal department, Suzanne Daniels, who was spearheading the recovery of R1.6bn unlawfully paid to Trillian and McKinsey. Maritz proceeded to tone down a demand that the consultants pay back the money to a simple request. According to Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma’s winning December’s ANC preside...

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