1. It’s time to choose your team for the IPL, which kicks off this weekend. Check out this M&G run down of the eight teams. I’m supporting Kepler Wessels’s Chennai Super Kings, who came third last year.

2. We live in an odd country. Business Day has a story about a Port Elizabeth engineering firm with no black ownership or management control that has achieved the highest rating under SA’s codes of good practice for BEE — simply by meeting other criteria under the empowerment laws. Read the story here.

3. The ANC is unimpressed with Gauteng Health MEC Brian Hlongwa telling the Sowetan that he’s so rich that he does his MEC’s job for the love of the poor. Party spokesman Brian Sokutu told The Times the ANC was supported by the poor and ,therefore, “making such irresponsible statements where one brags about his wealth is inconsistent and un-ANC”. Read the story here. Oopsie. Looks like no one told Brian that the SACP and Cosatu are running the show in the alliance these days.

4. Zoopy has the pilot epsiode of cartoonist Zapiro’s TV show, Z News, that the SABC censored last year. Click here to go to the Zoopy page.

5. And Moneyweb’s Alec Hogg is dispelling Zuma gloom, which is worth a read here after ex-Sunday Times columnist David Bullard wrote:

Personally, I think we will look back on a Zuma presidency in years to come as a welcome relief from the divisive and racist misrule of Thabo Mbeki. Jacob Zuma is a man comfortable in his own skin and is intelligent enough to know what he doesn’t know. With any luck he’ll gather the necessary skills around him and listen to advice; something Mbeki seemed reluctant to do.

Read the full Bullard column here.

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