THE THIRD UMPIRE

JACOB ZUMA

Nice try, but no cigar. It turns out that in the dying hours of his presidency, a clearly nervous Thief in Chief tweaked the terms of reference of the state capture inquiry by decreeing that evidence put before it cannot be used in a criminal trial.

DAVID MAHLOBO

Some have apparently not read the writing on the wall as carefully. The energy minister has rejected studies carried out by Eskom and the CSIR that found the nuclear option to be superfluous and prohibitively expensive. Reshuffle soon, please.

MOSIUOA LEKOTA

The former Free State premier, now COPE president, was jeered by the ANC sycophants in Parliament when he asked pertinent questions on the expropriation-without compensation issue. They are going to have to be answered sooner or later.