THE THIRD UMPIRE

ARTHUR FRASER

The fact that the correctional services commissioner overruled a medical parole advisory board to release Jacob Zuma from jail has surprised no-one, but is almost certainly grounds for a legal challenge. Stalingrad round infinity.

HELEN ZILLE

If love means never having to say you’re sorry the DA federal council chair must love her country very much. Because while the municipal election situation is messy, casting aspersions on the Constitutional Court was just wrong.

NAYIB BUKELE

El Salvador’s right-wing populist leader has put a brave face on it, but the impoverished country’s adoption of bitcoin as legal tender didn’t exactly go to plan, with street protests and the value of the digital currency plunging.