THE THIRD UMPIRE

THABO MBEKI

The former president has said out loud what the rest of SA - no doubt including many within the ANC were thinking: the party is abusing its parliamentary majority to protect the president from being held to account for whatever went down at Phala Phala.

SELLO SEKHOKHO

The Hawks have raided the home and business premises reportedly belonging to the former treasurer-general of the ANC in Ekurhuleni as part of its investigation into the R1bn Tembisa Hospital tender fraud scandal. It’s better late than never, we suppose.

CHATGPT

Academics in South Korea have found that the AI chatbot developed by OpenAI consistently outperforms randomly selected share portfolios, but not active fund managers. Then again, they weren’t taking the various costs and brokerage fees into account...