1. JUSTICE MALALA: We are becoming world leaders in stupidity In addition to his popular column on political affairs, Justice Malala writes a weekly restaurant review for the Financial Mail. But before he gets to the food, Justice can't resist making a political point. Justice writes: I need help with this one. So the president of the good republic SA appointed an intelligence minister who is being investigated for fraud and all sorts of other mayhem by the Hawks? And the president wasn’t aware of this? Is this serious? We all know that our intelligence services are now nothing more than a private security company for President Jacob Zuma and the Guptas. When author Jacques Pauw said in his book The President’s Keepers that Zuma was a tax dodger and corrupt, the secret service did not rush to investigate the president. They don’t go after people who break the law, you see. They quickly decided to shoot the messenger, Pauw, instead. Subscribe for R120 a month and read the full articl...

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