Pointy-shoe perp walks are just the start

IT’S IN the nature of South Africa’s tumultuous politics that every win has close on its heels a loss. Every hard-won advance is offset by a rapid setback.

So it’s a little too early for the excitement and backslapping that has accompanied the first high-profile arrests of those responsible for the financial evisceration of the state.

It’s understandable, though, given it’s been three years since President Cyril