Financial Mail named Mkhize its newsmaker of the year, calling on him to give his take on the PPE corruption that has gripped the country since last year. Mkhize leaves office with no assurance that he will be back to the tasks he so ardently wrote about in the article. This also happens at the exact time when South Africans need reassurances that the government's vaccine rollout programme will eventually succeed in its objectives. He had taken the position that only after the SIU completes its report will he act on Mkhize. - Moepeng Valencia Talane is a senior journalist and editor at Corruption Watch.

Source: News 24 June 11, 2021 03:00 UTC