Grim reading
In Grimm’s fairy tales, Rumpelstiltskin’s ability to spin gold from straw was his wicked means to claim the first-born child of the miller’s daughter.
The canniest politicians have a variation of the evil elf’s talent – they can spin crud into dazzling narratives for the naive, but the price ultimately exacted will be crippling.
The biggest spinner of tall tales in the Cabinet is Bheki Cele. In his two-year spell as National Police Commissioner and going on six years as
