2015 Get up, stand up

1. SONA
2. Filing at Farlam
3. And we all fall down…
4. New frontiers
5. Rogues of our Times
6. NeneGate
7. Rebecca departs
8. The R12m penis pic

The hashtag of 2015: #mustfall. It was a year of falling. Ranjeni was to conclude, at the year’s end: “The things that fell in 2015:

• The integrity of the State of the Nation Address,
• Members of Parliament assaulted by security officers,
• Parliamentary decorum,
• Signal jamming,
• The statue of Cecil John Rhodes,
• The integrity of state institutions,
• Hopes that the Marikana Commission would provide closure and justice,
• South African tourism,
• Helen Zille as leader of the Democratic Alliance,
• Zwelinzima Vavi as general secretary of Cosatu,
• The state’s respect for the judicial system,
• Loadshedding,
• Foreign nationals killed by South Africans in xenophobic violence,
• The ICC arrest warrant and high court interdict against Omar al-Bashir,
• Fraud and tax charges against Julius Malema,
• University fee increases,
• Oscar Pistorius’s flimsy version of Reeva Steenkamp’s murder,
• Blade Nzimande’s #StudentsMustFall joke,
• The primacy of Afrikaans at Stellenbosch University,
• Riah Phiyega,
• Presidential accountability,
• ANC membership,
• Heyneke Meyer,
• South Africa’s credit rating,
• Nhlanhla Nene,
• The rand,
• President Jacob Zuma’s last shred of credibility.”

So let’s get started, shall we?