THE THIRD UMPIRE

JACOB ZUMA

Too little, too late, Mr President. Hiking taxes to the tune of R30bn and cutting government spending by R50bn next year in response to SA’s credit rating being junked is all very well to stabilise the debt ratio, but what will that do to growth?

TOM MOYANE

Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive! The taxman’s attempt at spin to justify Jonas Makwakwa’s reinstatement despite so much unfinished business earned him a tonguelashing from the finance portfolio committee.

HENNIE VAN VUUREN

Absa’s application for judicial review of the public protector’s “Lifeboat” report may not be the best forum, but that Open Secrets’ is determined that apartheid crimes should not be swept under the carpet cannot be faulted.