EDITOR’S NOTE

BAFANA Bafana passed their acid test yesterday, playing under the dark cloud that has blanketed Durban since Friday.

However, it’s not clear whether DA leader Mmusi Maimane will make it out of his pure sulphuric acid test created by Helen Zille’s colonial tweets.

Analysts say the pressure is on him more than the accused and the cloud continues hanging over the party like the one darkening our beautiful city.

Perhaps you can read between the lines from the article on page 4 following the much-anticipated meeting between the party’s federal legal commission’s Glynnis Breytenbach and Zille yesterday.

As we approach the 50th anniversary of the death of South Africa’s first Nobel laureate, we speak to Dr Albertina Luthuli who can’t believe her “careful to a fault” father died in an accident. She remembers how the news hit her on that July 21 afternoon (page 10).

After Brexit and the Donald Trump cataclysm, few political soothsayers can predict with confidence the outcome of the upcoming French elections. But Marine Le Pen will perform formidably, writes our foreign editor Shannon Ebrahim in her Global Spotlight column on page 11.

And now that Trump has been trumped in the Obamacare political gamesmanship using people’s health, what next? That and other world stories are on page 12.

An engineer who quit his profession and started a new life as a farmer is helping transform rural and underprivileged people’s lives. He talks about his “way of the future” in our Get Growing gardening feature on page 15.

And what do you think of the storm the Spur video that went viral this week unleashed? Zohra Teke argues we need to understand certain things about our past to move forward.

There’s also free advice from Dennis Pather to Zille (page 22). Or is it too late for her?