…contd

The M&G had floundered when Nick Dawes resigned and this young woman took over in 2016.  These forces must have influenced management akin to what happened in the past with its progenitor the illustrious Rand Daily Mail – to influence management. The fate of the “Independent” Group of newspapers comes to mind.

The apparent power of readers’ comments in Pillay’s case could be harbinger of things to come in Zumaland. A distinct stiffening of public opinion; Vegter’s call her removal from HP; the sheer quality of contributions to the welcome renewed comments instituted by DM. In the scale of the groundswell of re-born energy in public expression I see a re-awakening of the heady years leading up to 1994 that proved mightier than the “colossus of conceit astride our aching land” as Tatamkhulu Afrika then put it.