A good few years ago, on a balmy summer's night I was interviewing a politically connected someone in their palatial home. It was an era of SARS spooks, cigarette smuggling and Pravin Gordhan .
As the conversation flowed, I heard the sweet, arousing words every journalist loves whispered in their ear. 'I have a scoop for you.'
'Pravin Gordhan has money in a bank account in Switzerland,' came the soft murmur from my connected entrepreneurial source. It was at the height of the SARS rogue unit and, Gordhan as SARS commissioner at the time, was in hot pursuit of cigarette smugglers and state capturers aka the Guptas.
But I was excited, as we all were at the time.
Malema had captured public attention with his wild, unfiltered public statements about Gordhan. And ofcourse we lapped it up. Gordhan was under fire from those being pursued. It was a media frenzy.
