Mchunu, Mrs Matlala, Maumela, Mudzinganyama - and Meyer…

In their weekly chat, Chris Steyn and political commentator Solly Moeng talk about the second seizure of of electronic devices belonging to Special Leave Police Minister Senzo Mchunu; the arrest of tenderpreneur Cat Matlala’s wife, Tskanane; the rape case against suspended Deputy National Commissioner Shadrack Sibiya; the latest testimony at the Madlanga Commission of Inquriy; the BEE abuse by foreign tenderpreneur Lawrence Mudzinganyama, who threatened to kill women who turned down his advances in a Sandton restaurant; the R1,9-billion tax billl for the still-free Tembisa Hospital tender don, Hangwani Maulema, the nephew by marriage of President Cyril Ramaphosa; Ambassador Roelf Meyer’s performance in the US, as well as the Freedom Front’s mayoral candidate for Nelson Mandela Bay, Bill Harrington, who served a lengthy prison sentence for the murder of an activist during the Apartheid years. Moeng describes Mchunu as “one of the most privileged suspects in contemporary South Africa”. He also reveals that a senior government official told him that “the art of surviving a senior position in government is to make sure they also eat”