Poor social development minister Lindiwe Zulu. We don’t know if she is one of those suffering MPs who “struggle to make ends meet”, as President Cyril Ramaphosa compassionately shared with us, but she certainly has to muck in with the rest of us ordinary citizens. 

We know this because Zulu was in an interview with the SABC last week when load-shedding struck. “Oh no,” Zulu had time to exclaim as the lights went out...

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