DM Weekly Wrap - SAA gets honest about its incompetence

[Click here for the web version of this email]( [Daily Maverick] Sunday, 1 July 2018 Story of the Week [The ruling into a dodgy SAA deal rips into Dudu Myeni and sinks executives]( By Jessica Bezuidenhout Pliable, negligent, dishonest and willing to go along with the charade. This is how the conduct of suspended South African Airways executives Musa Zwane and Phumeza Nhantsi have been labelled following a disciplinary hearing in which they were found guilty for their role in the BnP Capital scandal. New Skills Academy. [Click here]( to choose your course. [Tom Moyane accused of costing SARS, and South Africa, at least R142-billion]( The deep destruction Tom Moyane’s reign inflicted on SARS, and the country, came into focus on Wednesday when four top former SARS managers explained the circumstances which led to their leaving the institution. Moyane will have to weather a plethora of accusations by former SARS officials under oath – including that SARS’ revenue stream was manipulated in an attempt to achieve the revenue target. This is how Day Two of the Nugent Commission of Inquiry into SARS unfolded – it was not a pretty affair. [SA Indians owe Malema and the EFF]( In its 1948 election manifesto, the National Party argued that the Indians were “a foreign clement which cannot be assimilated in the South African set-up” and should be repatriated to India. It would appear that Malema and the EFF are trying to succeed where the NP had failed. By Brij Maharaj [Mzwanele Manyi shuts down his short-lived newspaper experiment]( Some Afro Voice (formerly The New Age) reporters were out on news stories on Thursday, oblivious to the fact that they no longer had jobs. While they were gathering news that would never be published, their boss Mzwanele Manyi was announcing to staff that it was all over, bar the gnashing of reporters’ teeth. The question on their minds: who would now employ a Gupta journalist? By Qaanitah Hunter [Maradona drama is a problem for Argentina and Messi]( There is no telling how the hysteria that surrounds Maradona really affects the team, whether his increasingly deranged presence is a force for inspiration, sympathy or discomfort. New Skills Academy. [Click here]( to choose your course. [The Fascist state of mind – how it is emerging in our political landscape]( An identifiable trope is emerging where South Africans are having to take note of fascism. My analysis, as a clinical psychologist, is an attempt to explore fascism from a psychological position. By this I mean: what needs to happen within the mind of a person for him to gravitate towards this particular way of making sense of the world. What are the psycho-mechanics of fascism? By Francois Rabie [The High Road to a greater Kruger National Park]( Why are we, the citizens of the Greater Kruger, allowing the narrative of our story to be seized by people who live and work thousands of miles away? Why are the people whose lives are most affected by the decisions made in and around the Greater Kruger remaining silent in the media? By Don Scott [David Goldblatt: Documenting a country’s values in visuals]( As the world hears of the death of renowned photographer David Goldblatt at the age of 87 on 25 June, 2018, his photographs remind us of the life and times of generations living under apartheid – and beyond. By Nkateko Mabasa New Skills Academy. [Click here]( to choose your course. [FORWARD THIS EMAIL TO A FRIEND]( Copyright © 2018 Daily Maverick, All rights reserved. You are receiving this mail because you are awesome and on the Daily Maverick First Thing subscriber list. [Getting too many emails from us? Manage your preferences]( | [Unsubscribe](