About the Author

S'Thembiso Msomi is a political journalist currently based at the Sunday Times where he is Deputy Editor. He began his career at the Natal Witness in the mid-1990s where he covered provincial politics as well as the violence that continued to grip parts of the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands region long after the advent of democracy in 1994. Since then, he has worked at the Sunday Times Business Times as a labour reporter; parliamentary correspondent and political reporter. He has also worked at City Press as an investigative correspondent and political editor. In 2008 he rejoined Times Media, working at the The Times newspaper as political editor, and later Deputy Editor, as well as a regular columnist.