THE THIRD UMPIRE

GWEDE MANTASHE

HELEN ZILLE

MARYANNE TRUMP BARRY

Far from resisting progress, as the mineral resources minister alleges, the Mineral Council SA is duty-bound to challenge the Mining Charter’s implementation. Policy certainty is all very well, but if that policy is detrimental to the industry, it must be resisted. A glowing endorsement by the ANC-dominated National Assembly of the performance of the Western Cape under her leadership is an unexpected feather in the cap of the outgoing premier. Pity it was the result of the ANC napping on the job. President Donald Trump’s big sister has retired as a US federal appellate judge, rendering moot a probe into whether she violated rules on judicial conduct in the ’90s by taking part in tax fraud with her siblings to boost their inherited wealth.