THE THIRD UMPIRE

STEPHEN YORK

The Bain SA managing partner’s efforts to explain away the management consultancy’s role in facilitating state capture, specifically the SA Revenue Service, have been in vain: the Treasury has banned it from bidding for contracts in the public sector for 10 years.

BLADE NZIMANDE

Parliament’s standing committee on public accounts has, thankfully, denied the higher education & training minister’s curious request to keep from the public a forensic report initiated by the committee into the R5bn that is missing from the National Skills Fund .

SEAN TURNELL

The Australian economist, an academic at Sydney’s Macquarie University who served as an adviser to ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi, has been jailed for three years by the military junta that rules the country after a coup, following a secret trial.