THE THIRD UMPIRE

EDWARD KIESWETTER

While compensating current and former SA Revenue Service employees who were adversely affected by state capture means taxpayers will cough up yet again, it’s the right thing to do. And if the perpetrators are brought to book, it will be well worth it.

TSHEPO MAHANUKE

The new Johannesburg Roads Agency CEO has been exposed by a Daily Maverick investigation as having faked his qualifications, including claiming a master’s degree from Harvard that doesn’t exist and a bought “doctorate” and “professorship”.

MOZAMBIQUE

SA’s northeastern neighbour’s first shipment of liquefied natural gas from the Coral South project in the ultra-deep waters of the Rovuma Basin has been exported to Europe. Not bad going given the disruptions caused by rebel insurgencies.