On Friday we saw an extraordinary outpouring of emotion against President Zuma and his cronies. Marches of this size have certainly not been seen since the fall of apartheid. But will it do anything? Sadly, it won’t.

I am sure the ANC leadership took note of it and they might even have been uncomfortable watching it on TV, but the spin machine quickly kicked into gear. The same night the government said that only 60 000 people took part in the various forms of protests country-wide.

Seriously? The people who calculated that figure must have been smoking some of the newly legalised dagga.