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The Economic Freedom Fighters’ ‘national shutdown’ last week brought out modest numbers of people, intimidated some businesses into closing and gave the EFF an outsized presence in media coverage and in the public mind. It invited the condemnation of its detractors. All of the latter is intrinsic to the party’s political positioning, so it can clock this up as a win of sorts.

The EFF's 'national shutdown' has failed to impress the general populace, rather drawing condemnation and more concern for law and order.

The EFF’s grand “national shutdown” has come and gone. Squeezed in between the weekend and a public holiday, many working people took some time off and stayed away from work not because they endorse the EFF’s revolutionary agenda, but because they wanted to spend some time unwinding with family and friends.

The FM quotes the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) as saying that load-shedding is ‘a direct result of corruption at Eskom’ (‘Milking the Eskom cow’, 6 March).

Allan Wolman asks whether the ANC, given its plummeting polling values, freshly minted state of disaster and steadfast friendship with Russia, might be machinating to avoid facing the electorate in 2024 (“Is the ANC mulling a suspension of next year’s election?”, February 16).