Information is Wealth.

A presidential contender. A sex tape. A betrayed woman. A Sunday newspaper headline. Except, it didn’t. Revelations of Cyril Ramaphosa’s "affairs" appear to have been less interesting than the initial billing promised. Yes, Ramaphosa is a presidential contender. But it turns out he wasn’t on the sex tape. And it seems he had already spoken with his wife about the affair and they had moved on. And the Sunday newspaper that broke the story? Well, it has fallen on hard times of late and now seems to be less of a newspaper than another peddler of stories of the Bell Pottinger ilk. Despite Ramaphosa’s best efforts to stay in the headlines, readers had lost interest by Monday Inside, the paper carried an editorial comment by Mosebenzi Zwane, the Gupta-crazy mining minister, with a picture byline. Its main Sunday read was an article about how state capture is "hokum". The previous week it had published an opinion piece that argued Ramaphosa ought to be tried for...