THE THIRD UMPIRE

JACOB ZUMA

With Moody’s warning that political infighting is SA’s Achilles heel when it comes to our credit rating, the president is skating on thin ice by accusing the Treasury of frustrating the ANC’s transformation agenda by maintaining fiscal discipline.

QEDANI MAHLANGU

The Gauteng health MEC was right to resign in the wake of the health ombudsman’s shocking report on 94 psychiatric patients who died in appalling conditions as a result of a government cost-cutting exercise.

RAPHAAHLE RAMOKGOPA

The Social Security Agency was warned that it did not have the capacity to take over the grant payment system from CPS; now the time has come and its executive manager has conceded it is not ready.