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[Daily Maverick] Sunday, 26 November 2017 STORY OF THE WEEK [Op-Ed: Beware ‘Crocodile’ Mnangagwa – Zanu-PF is not renewing, it is a snake shedding its old skin]( By LEON JAMIE MIGHTI. Those who believe Robert Mugabe should be punished for crimes against humanity and stand trial, I agree with you. If you believe that then you must believe the same for the number one henchman, Emmerson Mnangagwa. We cannot have a fresh start without a full account from Mugabe and Mnangagwa about what they did, who they did it with, and why they did it. [Scorpio: Asset Forfeiture Unit to go after State Capture’s ‘billionaire izinyoka’]( First sign of real efforts to tackle State Capture culprits as NDPP Shaun Abrahams lets slip details of crack team headed by Advocate Knorx Molelle. By JESSICA BEZUIDENHOUT for SCORPIO. [Gated communities and privatised privilege]( Last week a full bench of the KwaZulu-Natal Division of the High Court (Pietermaritzburg) declared invalid several managing association rules of a golfing estate which regulated traffic and discriminated against “domestic employees”. The judgment provides a timely reminder that no person or body (including a body corporate) can contract themselves out of constitutional or other legal obligations. [Parliament: In a reality twisting performance, Molefe denies everything]( A simple answer to a straightforward question turned out to be not quite the thing for former Eskom Chief Executive Brian Molefe. Maintaining he took early retirement, and did not resign as the courts would hear next week, he told the public enterprises State Capture inquiry: “The battle I chose was load shedding”. And while Molefe publicly announced his stepping down in the interest of good governance after the public protector’s 2016 State of Capture report, on Tuesday night that document was described as “notes” and “observation” – and, without findings “just fresh air”. By MARIANNE MERTEN. [#GuptaLeaks: MultiChoice paid the Guptas millions]( MultiChoice, the pay-TV company that owns DStv and M-Net, made a questionable payment of R25m to the Guptas' controversial ANN7 channel, the #GuptaLeaks show. In addition, MultiChoice increased its annual payment to ANN7 from R50m to R141m. The payments came after the family seemingly assisted former communications minister Faith Muthambi in getting President Jacob Zuma to transfer certain broadcasting powers to her, something MultiChoice was lobbying the minister for. By NEWS24. — [Scorpio: The Makwakwa Dossier, Part One – Moyane, Hogan Lovells and the investigation that never really was]( Jonas Makwakwa’s disciplinary process seems so tailored that it borders on the realm of being cooked. Tom Moyane tried his utmost to keep the facts and the prolonged process secret and in the end attempted to mislead the public into thinking his second-in-command has been cleared of fraud and money laundering allegations. Scorpio can now reveal that the opposite is true, show how the tailoring was done and explain how Moyane was aided and abetted by the international law firm Hogan Lovells. By PAULI VAN WYK for SCORPIO. [#GuptaLeaks: MultiChoice paid the Guptas millions]( MultiChoice, the pay-TV company that owns DStv and M-Net, made a questionable payment of R25m to the Guptas' controversial ANN7 channel, the #GuptaLeaks show. In addition, MultiChoice increased its annual payment to ANN7 from R50m to R141m. The payments came after the family seemingly assisted former communications minister Faith Muthambi in getting President Jacob Zuma to transfer certain broadcasting powers to her, something MultiChoice was lobbying the minister for. By NEWS24. [Parliament: Lynne Brown ranges between attack and denial in bruising six-hour State Capture interrogation]( Parliament’s public enterprises committee as part of its oversight had encouraged the executives and board chairpersons of State-owned Entities (SoEs) to share information to improve performance. But a meeting in early 2015 called by then SAA board chairperson Dudu Myeni with her Eskom counterpart Zola Tsotsi at the presidential residence in Durban wasn’t quite what had been contemplated. It was that meeting, at which President Jacob Zuma also made an appearance, according to testimony at the parliamentary State Sapture inquiry on Wednesday, which set in motion a series of suspensions and resignations at Eskom that link to further State Capture deals. By MARIANNE MERTEN. [Much of our current euphoria in Zimbabwe is misplaced]( The message to the Zimbabwe Defence Force must now be – thank you for cleaning up the mess you created but you must now return to your barracks as soon as possible and never again get involved in the electoral process. — [FORWARD THIS EMAIL TO A FRIEND]( Copyright © 2017 Daily Maverick, All rights reserved. You are receiving this mail because you are awesome and on the Daily Maverick First Thing subscriber list. [Preferences]( | [Unsubscribe](