EDITOR’S LUNCHBOX: All eyes on Cyril Ramaphosa after Cabinet bombshell

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Who is celebrating Pravin Gordhan’s departure? SARS commissioner Tom Moyane, no doubt.

All eyes on Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa and ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe’s next move.

SABC television’s audience share dropped to 45% in the last quarter, down from an average of 53% in the 2012-13 financial year.

Meanwhile, former communications minister Faith Muthambi instructs members of the SABC interim board not to start work until they receive security clearance.

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It seems almost inevitable now that SA’s government debt will be downgraded to junk status, but even if it is not, there is simply no conceivable way that Pravin Gordhan’s successor can possibly regain the same level of trust of foreign lenders.

Iqbal Surve, Sekunjalo Group and Independent Media executive chairperson is once again on the pages of his own newspaper. He appears not once but twice in the same edition of The Star on Friday — in the main body of the newspaper and also in Business Report. The "news" this time is that the esteemed doctor is leading the South African chapter of the Brics Business Council at the mid-term meeting of Brics representatives in New Delhi, India.

Jonny Steinberg says Helen Zille’s offending tweet was not so because it raised a debate about the past. Rather, it was to have been deaf to the most difficult aspects of being black here and now.

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Gupta-liked Vardospan sought to compel the Reserve Bank and the Treasury to "rush their decisions" for the take-over of Habib Bank.

Credit regulator takes issue with WesBank for approaching defaulting consumers to surrender their cars, as opposed to defaulters approaching WesBank.

looking to get back to the skyFly Blue Crane is still looking to get back to the sky. The budget airline is SA’s first majority black-and woman-owned low-cost carrier, but entered business rescue soon after its launch in November 2016.

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