THE THIRD UMPIRE

DEREK HANEKOM

Oh, to be a “disciplined cadre of the ANC”. Nine months ago the new/old tourism minister described land expropriation without compensation as “seriously unjust” and warned that it would do great damage to the economy. On Tuesday he voted for it.

NOMVULA MOKONYANE

It must be with a feeling of deep satisfaction that the former water and sanitation minister moves across to communications, knowing she has left an insolvent department at a time when a good part of the country is in the throes of drought.

SHERINE ABDEL WAHAB

The Egyptian singer has been sentenced to six months in prison for “unjustified mockery of our dear Egypt” after joking about the cleanliness of the notoriously polluted river Nile. Seems she’s the only one who’s not in de Nile.