The more things cultural try to change, the more they stay the same.

We might not have royalty of our own, but in South Africa we have many pretenders to that status. Most of our politicians and public servants act as though their roles entitle them to the royal treatment. Case in point: Cape Town’s mayoress, Trish van der Velde.

A small miscalculation with your creditors (who you had otherwise hoped to send away empty-handed) could land you with having to share your house with a stranger. That’s what’s happened to Wanda Venter, wife of Casper, President de Klerk’s personal assistant, and herself a daughter of the illustrious Malan family of Paarl.

How, one asks oneself, have they got away with it for so long, selling Anglo American and De Beer’s corporate strategies as if they represented liberal values?

A secretly recorded interview with Dr Eschel Rhoodie, man at the heart of the info scandal, in which he talks more openly than ever before about the secrets of the apartheid government.