After an enforced absence of three months in the UK, where every day brought a new set of rules about when, where, and how to live, it is reassuring to be back in SA where everything is as it was.

Jacob Zuma says it’s not convenient for him to attend the Zondo commission, while the fickle finger of fate decides which of the ANC hierarchy it might implicate in state capture, at the speed of a glacier. Cape gangsters corrupt the police and rampage through the townships with impunity. Farm murders continue unabated and a bus driver is burnt to death for doing his job...

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