The biography of the Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe was recently launched. The biography is written by Ebrahim Harvey and although I doubt I will get round to reading it because I have a number of business books that will probably be more profitable for me to read, before I read more on politics, the extracts from it certainly make interesting reading. The books says that when President Mbeki was in charge that government Ministers always felt that they had to prepare very carefully before making presentations, because President Mbeki would always intervene and he would sometimes look as if he know more about what was going on in their portfolio than they did. Mbeki is quoted in the book as saying, about those times compared with the Cabinet under President Zuma, “But today I hear some Ministers saying that they miss the serious discussions and debates we had in Cabinet in the past.” That is certainly a bit of a swipe at Jacob Zuma and the current Cabinet.