ANC infighting and battles between different government departments made last July’s riots worse, according to the expert report on the unrest published by the presidency on Monday.
ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba was on the campaign trail in the Eastern Cape on Tuesday handing out T-shirts. And rumour has it that he will hand DA heavyweight Athol Trollip a brand new ActionSA T-shirt.
Following the JSC's announcement that it recommends Supreme Court of Appeal President Mandisa Maya be appointed as the next chief justice, the Helen Suzman Foundation has threatened legal action.
It may have been intended as a bombshell, but it landed as no more than a stink bomb when EFF party leaders attacked Chief Justice candidate Judge Dunstan Mlambo during his JSC interview on Thursday.
Justice Mandisa Maya's neighbours in Ward 32 in Mthatha spent the whole of Wednesday watching her interview for the position of Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court.