Dianne

This is South Africa's news and information leader, SAfm. I'm Dianne Kohler Barnard here in the Durban studios with today's edition of "The Editors". Three editors, as ever. In fact, they're all with me in the Durban studios. Debbie Reynolds is Managing Editor of Independent on Saturday; Michael Maxwell - just flown in from Ireland - is Chief Sub Editor of the Irish Farmers Journal; and Sam Sole is Investigative Journalist for the Mail & Guardian. Hello to all of you. As ever, we'll start with your individual choices of what you believe to have been the top three stories of the past week - no explanations necessary at this stage. Let's begin with you, Debbie.

Sam

I have three stories which interest me as an investigative journalist, none of which there's terribly much detail on at the moment. The one is about Mzi Khumalo - what's being dubbed "Mzigate" - which is quite an old story, really, but there were new allegations published this week online on the Moneyweb website about the way in which Mzi Khumalo became an overnight billionaire by manipulating an empowerment deal with the Harmony Gold group. [watch this space - RMY]

The second one is "The Shaik Must Sing". The ruling by the Natal High Court that Shabir Shaik - Jacob Zuma's financial advisor - can be required by the Scorpions to give evidence about his dealings with the Deputy President and with the arms manufacturer, Thomsons.

Dianne

Ouch, ouch! Sam, the arms deal...?

Sam

Yes, this court ruling... What happened is that Shaik had been subpoenaed by the Scorpions to come and give evidence, particularly about this alleged meeting between himself, Deputy President Zuma and a man called Alain Thetard, who was the chief representative of Thompsons, now known as Thales, for a big French arms multinational, at which meeting the Deputy President was alleged to have attempted to solicit a payment, something which he denies. Now, the Scorpions have been trying to question Shaik about this meeting. He launched a High Court application to say that their subpoena of him was unconstitutional because he essentially argued that he's been accused and therefore has to testify on his own case. Now, the judge has thrown that out. I expect that he will appeal it and go all the way to the Constitutional Court.

Dianne

So that's going to be in the headlines next week.

Dianne

Okay. Sam Sole...?

I'm going to watching to see what happens with Mzi Khumalo. 

With acknowledgements to Sam Sole, Dianne Kohler Barnard and SAFM.