THE Patricia de Lille circus seems to be on the road again. This time she raised expectations by promising to make a bombshell announcement about a senior government official involved in the R43bn arms procurement tender. 

She promised she would address the matter at a media conference scheduled for yesterday.  

At the conference she made a turnabout and instead claimed she had released the implicated officials' names to selected media.  

We and the nation are getting tired of this see-saw politicking over a matter which is so serious and which affects taxpayers' money and, perhaps more importantly, the integrity of our democracy.  

What the PAC ought to have done was await the investigation, then come out with guns blazing.  

It is demoralising that the PAC, a black party, is denouncing the investigation team, headed by black executives, and demand that a white man, Willem Heath, be the central figure in the probe.  

Either out of ignorance or arrogance the PAC has fallen into the hands of those who want to see whites take charge of SA. And now we see the PAC pandering to select media.  

The Sowetan is not one of the select group, perhaps because it, too, is a black newspaper. Perhaps, as some colleagues observed, it is sour grapes on the part of the Sowetan that it was discriminated against by the PAC. Well, perhaps.  

With acknowledgment to Business Day.