Come back, Fast Eddie, all’s forgiven

The changes at Luthuli House have had one bad consequence for Hogarth — it has taken away the voice of the outgoing No 1’s other, not-so-favourite son, Edward Zuma. It is like someone has stolen his tongue or surgically removed his fingers. No longer does he write those missives attacking cabinet ministers and other politicians his daddy is unhappy with. Gone, too, are his not-so-very-sober latenight radio interviews, where his every other sentence started with the names of his father’s imaginary chief enemies: Pravin Gordhan and Johann Rupert. If anyone happens to spot him around the green fields of Nkandla herding his cousin Khulubuse’s cattle, please tell him he is missed.