EDITOR’S NOTE

WILL President Jacob Zuma survive – once again – on Tuesday? That is the question. The markets, as our front-page story suggests, expect him to remain standing. But, as the clock ticks down to August 8, I wonder what’s going to happen to all those plotting his downfall if they don’t succeed. Will they be hoisted by their own petard?

Our Big Issue page (17) is devoted to this hot topic as well as the “white monopoly capital” debate.

This week, the debate continued around EFF leader Julius Malema’s utterances about “Indian dominance”, at Curries Fountain. This was bound to attract mixed views.

Some have described him as a dangerous populist, rabble-rouser and a “political chameleon”, while others say he simply raised a topic that was ignored (see pages 6, 16 and 18). You decide.

Being Women’s Month our chief reporter went to find out what it’s like for women living in the war zone that is Glebelands Hostel (page 7). How do they survive?

Peter Duffy, one of Durban’s most colourful press photographers, died on Friday while a book about his crazy life was being printed. Veteran journalist Graham Linscott remembers some of his many escapades (page 9).

While we’re trying to get rid of our president, in Rwanda Paul Kagame is being celebrated as the “miracle man” behind the boom in “Africa’s Singapore”. Even with the stability and prosperity he brought to his country, some are not happy (page 11). Despite their worries about “creeping dictatorship” tendencies, they’ve come a long way.

If Rwanda could rise like a phoenix from the ashes of the genocide of 1994, in which nearly 1 million people were killed, there’s hope for us in South Africa.