THE THIRD UMPIRE

ATHOL TROLLIP

Nelson Mandela Bay has less than two weeks to pass its 2018-19 budget before the city is placed under administration and the council dissolved. And with the ANC et al doing everything in their power to collapse things, it’s going to be touch and go.

ANELE NTLEMEZA

Disgraced former Hawks boss Berning Ntlemeza’s daughter, a policewoman herself, is to be charged with crimen injuria and intimidation after she was recorded making death threats against the police officer who opened charges against her father.

ELON MUSK

Tesla has announced a 9% reduction in its workforce, a belated acknowledgement by its famously innovative but notoriously riskaddicted South Africanborn founder that costs have spiralled out of control as he races to ramp up production of the Model 3.