In the opinion pages today, taxi associations are acting like mafia organisations and threatening bus company Intercape through violence, there are calls for he tripartite alliance between the ANC, SACP, and Cosatu to come to an end, and will Mosebenzi Zwane come clean during the Vrede Dairy Farm trial and reveal the Gupta’s dirty dealings?
Mr Fixfokol in the transport mafia spotlight
Financial Mail editor Rob Rose highlights the ongoing battle between bus company Intercape and taxi associations in the Eastern Cape that have tried to use fear and intimidation to get Intercape to pay them off. It’s all very mafiaesque and Intercape has pleaded with transport minister Fikile Mbalula to step in. But the minister has done nothing thus far and Intercape has sought the help of the courts to compel Mbalula to come up with an action plan. (Financial Mail, for subscribers)
The ANC-led tripartite alliance is dead! Long live the tripartite alliance!
Mbhazima Shilowa dives into the recent chaos that saw ANC chairperson Gwede Mantashe unable to deliver his party’s address of support at the Cosatu national conference after he was booed off the stage. Mantashe is a trade union stalwart and helped to found Cosatu, so it was striking that trade unionists want nothing to do with him or the ANC. There are those within Cosatu and the other tripartite alliance member, the South African Communist Party, who are calling for the break-up of the alliance and for the SACP to contest elections on its own. (News24, for subscribers)
Sing, Mosebenzi Zwane, sing … tell us what you know
Following the first appearance of former minerals minister and known Gupta family associate Mosebenzi Zwane in the Bloemfontein Magistrates Court on Wednesday concerning the Vrede Dairy farm scandal, Times LIVE writes in an editorial that Zwane should spill the beans on the Gupta family. The publication argues that Zwane may be able to redeem himself somewhat if he tells the courts everything he knows about the Gupta’s business dealings as has been highlighted in the State Capture reports. (Times LIVE, for subscribers)
Here’s what else we’re reading today:
- NATASHA MARRIAN: An alliance of growing acrimony – Financial Mail (for subscribers)
- THULI MADONSELA: Imagine if SA invested in its people … – Financial Mail (for subscribers)
- KHAYA SITHOLE: Ramaphosa’s response to Eskom crisis reveals his cluelessness – Business Day (for subscribers)
- ANC top dogs all dogged by scandals – The Citizen (for subscribers)
- TOM EATON | ‘Political conscience’ isn’t necessarily a relationship between right and wrong – Times LIVE (for subscribers)
