Biscuits as “the sacramental bread of austerity” is worth the click alone. Poplak’s at his best when he’s on the edge of sanity, as most journos currently are.

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And so, those biscuits – the sacramental bread of austerity. Hungrily were they consumed, because the media briefing was by that time two-and-a-half hours behind schedule. This was probably because the former finance minister, Pravin Gordhan, was willing to spare more than a few minutes of his time in order to educate the current finance minister, Malusi Gigaba, on the complex workings of the government’s most technocratically intricate department.

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