Succinct as always. But in support of a positive as well as realistic appraisal of this country's chances of redemption I'll optimistically ascribe the usually unaffected Mr De Vos's bleak conclusion to a passing mood. OUTA has just lodged criminal and treason charges against the implausible mining minister Zwane, but if the cudgel can only be grasped by the NPA under it's current corrupt leadership, the exercise will be futile. In that procedural fairness has meaning in our constitution, what possibility exists in SA law for civic society to institute private criminal prosecution of Zwane etc... or for that matter the head of the NPA himself?