JUSTICE MALALA: How will Cyril handle Brazil’s very own Trump?
How will Ramaphosa handle Brics meetings, because Brazil’s Bolsonaro, if he wins, is a rather nasty piece of work?
I’m sure many of you will remember the good old days when this was a food column. Looking back at all those years of gorging, it pains me to say that it was all in vain. I was looking at absolutely the wrong place for political insight. Instead of looking at what politicians might be eating or ought to eat, I really should have been looking very seriously into what it is they are putting into their regular drink. It must be some strong stuff. Last week I nearly fell off my chair when I browsed through Business Day. It reported that our errant immediate former head of the SA Revenue Service (Sars) (whose bodyguard once locked an executive in the boardroom, prompting him to shout "kidnap!") says he is the most successful Sars commissioner in democratic history. I wanted to eat my newspaper, but I held off to read further in case I wasn’t getting the joke. Alas, this arrant nonsense continued. "By any lawful measure or standard, my tenure at Sars was the most successful in the democrat...
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