EDITOR’S NOTE

TO AVOID getting involved in the #Menaretrash debate I’ll simply move along and admit that we’re all trash. What good are good men and women when they can’t prevent the senseless killing of Courtney Pieters, Karabo Mokoena and others?

Evil thrives when the good do nothing, somebody said. This is sad news but we had to tell it (see page 5).

On page 17 we also have a first-hand account of what it can be like for a woman living with a monster husband and a spineless mother-in-law whose concern is about the family being shamed. And this is a businesswoman we’re referring to.

South Africa has to wake up now.

Predictably, people have come forward to vent their spleen following our UKZN med school exposé last week. Apart from the frontpage story urging those involved to come clean, there’s more on page 7.

With the judiciary overreach debate back on, you might want to ask: who runs SA, the courts or the executive? Or maybe you should ask how our country is run. Former Constitutional Court judge Mr Justice Zak Yacoob answers this (page 18).

Former Robben Island prisoner Sunny Singh urges the Israeli government to listen to the demands of the Palestinian prisoners who are on Day 35 of their hunger strike (page 19).

He also reflects, and even reminisces, about his time on the island in the 1960s. Also on this page Imraan Buccus reviews the explosive, well-researched book by Hennie van Vuuren, Apartheid, Guns and Money. How deep does this rot from the past run? By how much did it influence the corruption affecting our young democracy today?

I agree, this is one book we should read to understand the pervasive corruption turning our democracy dream into a nightmare.