Bruce’s List: A daily guide to informed reads.The Gupta family holds its annual South African of the Year awards banquet later this month. Or was it last month? I don’t know and it doesn’t matter. The last winner I recall was Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, someone the Guptas still need to capture and that is always best started off with some flattery. The one person who won’t be on the shortlist this year is Sipho Pityana, who has in a few short weeks come to stand for all the good things I used to associate with the ANC. Courage, integrity and consistency. Pityana shocked guests at Makhenkesi Stofile’s funeral with a ferocious attack on President Jacob Zuma’s catastrophic administration of the country. It lit up the media for days as people hammered him and supported him. A former DG at foreign affairs, an entrepreneur and now chairman of AngloGold Ashanti, Pityana went quiet for a while and then burst back yesterday with a blistering attack on Zuma again at a mining conference in Johanne...
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