EDITOR’S NOTE

TEN years ago it took Judge Thumba Pillay to get the Department of Correctional Services to do its job and properly look after Hiv-positive inmates in their care at the Westville prison. Now another judge had to save the day for 17 million social grant recipients.

Clearly South Africa needs more organisations like the Aids Law Project and Black Sash. For now, the grants matter is settled (see page 6). And thank God we have our independent courts – God, not colonialism.

Police Minister Nathi Nhleko reflects on Helen Zille’s shocking colonialism tweet (see page 18).

Durban, the Cinderella metro of the new South Africa, may have lost the 2022 Games, but it’s still the country’s best quality living city (see News You Should Know, on this page, and City Watch, on page 13).

While basking in that glory, some residents will be confused about the alleged snubbing of Deputy Mayor Fawzia Peer by Mayor Zandile Gumede.

Our regular columnist Zohra Teke says the mayor committed a faux pas. She argues these are dangerous games destroying the ANC in KZN, the last bastion of power it can still count on comfortably (see page 19).

But the main articles on that same Big Issue page are about the day that left one of the biggest indelible marks on South Africa’s history, March 21, 1960.

For light relief, pull out the SM magazine. Buhle Mbonambi asks on page 17: What makes someone a foodie?

I wonder if one needs to share in the anxiety about the possible global shortage of olive oil to fit in? Count me out though, because I hate the awful taste of gorgonzola or the new larney idea of mushroom coffee.

In the KZN Business supplement we talk to a foodie more famous as a musician, J’something, about his restaurant business.