10. Makhudu Sefara's article in the Sunday Independent on how the University of Limpopo failure to award former President Thabo Mbeki an honorary doctorate, as promised:
It seems that the University decided to award the honour to Mbeki before the ANC national conference in Polokwane in 2007. However, shortly after Mbeki was recalled by the ANC as South African president in September 2008 the university decided to postpone the granting of the degree. According to Sefara the feeling was that "it would not be ‘acceptable' for the university to be seen to be bestowing its highest honours on someone out of favour with the current ANC leadership."
9. The lead story in the Saturday Star by Kashiefa Ajam on the efforts by Chivas Regal to displace Johnny Walker Black as the preferred whisky of the ANC elite:
The article quotes an anonymous spokeswoman for a public relations company for Chivas as saying: "They are drinking whisky and Chivas wants to be the whisky that they drink - instead of the opposition, Johnnie Walker." Presumably the brand sees no clash between its "live with Chivalry" campaign, and the conduct of the whisky drinking ANC elite and their BEE cronies.
8. The lead story ($) in the Sunday Tribune explaining the state's case against Sheryl Cwele, wife of minister of state security, Siyabonga Cwele:
Niyanta Singh and Matthew Savides report that the key witness against Cwele is Charmaine Moss. The allegation is that Cwele approached Moss, "whom she had previously known as their children had attended choir practice together", and indicated that she could secure a job for her to London. Together with her co-accused, the Nigerian Frank Nabolis, Cwele arranged for Moss to travel to Turkey. When Moss asked Cwele what the purpose of the trip was "Cwele allegedly explained that she would have to bring back a parcel from Turkey for Nabolis. At that point, Moss refused to get involved."