The weekly pop sack:

The South Africa we’ve come to know, love and loathe is back for another season after a riveting 2016. We’re fast learning that just because everything is gasp-worthy and probably unacceptable according to our lofty moral standards, that doesn’t make it stop or go away or change the exorbitant price of a Nando’s family meal these days. From a metered taxi strike that gridlocked an entire highway and continues to boggle the mind to an airport heist, it’s no wonder we’re all cynics. We’re just trying our best to feel something before being launched into the next traumatic piece of news.

Shocking OR Tambo heist

OR Tambo International Airport was at the centre of controversy last week after R200-million was seized from the cargo area in an elaborate secret looting spree. Allegations of corruption have been made, with too many