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‘So, Nathi Mthethwa sees nothing wrong with what’s happening to artists and the entertainment industry at large?’

The alleged plot failed — and yesterday Eldridge “Chico” Februarie, the union’s former club affairs manager John Scheepers and deputy president Bantwini Matika, instead lined up in the Port Elizabeth Magistrate’s Court to face charges of fraud and money laundering.

True to form and the species’ strong natal instinct, he flew unerringly 250km in two days back to his territory in Steynsburg.

While even the bigger unions are feeling the pressure, it is regions like Eastern Province and Border which will need to box clever if they want to survive and prosper.

President Cyril Ramaphosa’s state of the nation address on Thursday will cost the country just over R100,000, saving millions of rand.