Language watchdog needed

The SACP got in on the action at the state capture commission with a demonstration outside the building. They also handed a memorandum to the commission’s secretariat, which was read into the record. The rather wordy memo demanded that the commission “defend our democracy, it’s the highly vulnerable people, the working class and poor who depend on the state and its organs”. Hogarth thought that was the reason the SACP existed. But an even more puzzling line in the SACP statement, read by advocate Paul Pretorius SC, was that the commission should “clear our state organs and SOEs of any doggy, corrupt and looting thieves in state institutions”.

“I assume they mean dodgy,” said Pretorius. With the SACP, the bark is always worse than the bite, so you never know.