Gordhan & Malema set for Zondo, Florida's recount, Khashoggi murder

[Click here for the web version of this email]( [FIRST THING With John Stupart] Monday, 19 November 2018 “Farewell is said by the living, in life, every day. It is said with love and friendship, with the affirmation that the memories are lasting if the flesh is not.” RA Salvatore Story of the Day [Gordhan, Malema and evidence about Zuma will make for a potent week at State Capture probe]( By Ferial Haffajee Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan’s testimony at the Zondo Commission of Inquiry into State Capture on Monday is likely to be the most politically contested. Gordhan is the first sitting Cabinet minister to place former president Jacob Zuma at the epicentre of the probe into State Capture but he will run into a wall of dissent from the opposition Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) which campaigned for the former president to resign and which made Parliament a no-go zone for him. 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