EDITOR’S NOTE

OUR leaders need to read this. South Africa apparently has a natural ally that has achieved a lot in radical economic transformation.

But there’s a sad irony, writes our foreign editor Shannon Ebrahim (page 10). Most of us don’t even know who Lenin Moreno is.

As a God-fearing man born on Good Friday, I was tempted to censor Ben Trovato’s ramble about the bunny that stole Easter. But it’s a free country and laughter is the best medicine (see page 14).

And it’s good that nowadays you can buy Easter eggs and chocolate bunnies as well as Matzo biscuits from the same shop and pay at a till manned by a Muslim. Jason Mast looks at the not-so-hunkydory history of Easter and Passover (page 15).

Happy holidays everyone.

As if we had any chance of forgetting this fact this week, Professor George Devenish reminds us we’re living in very interesting times. Like most of us, he can’t wait to hear the outcome of the Constitutional Court as to whether the unhappy honourable members of Parliament may vote in secret in the coming no-confidence debate (page 20). He also decries the fact that we have a flawed electoral system.

I don’t mean to mock them like Mark Antony, but aren’t some of these honourable men and women as ambitious as the “Julius Caesar” they want removed from the Union Buildings?

Max Boqwana sheds light on former president Thabo Mbeki’s article calling on the ANC MPS to vote with their conscience.

And which ANC president said these words: “I am in the African National Congress precisely because I’m a Christian”?

I bet you’re struggling there since numerous ANC leaders of yesterday and today were Soldiers of Christ, as Sandile Memela calls them. With what is going on in the organisation and the country, Memela asks what happened to such cadres (page 21).