--- title: "While you were sleeping: 26 October 2017" description: "#CapeWaterGate unpacked and explained, Trump attempts to rally Republicans, and Fats Domino dead at 89." type: "NewsArticle" publisher: "Daily Maverick" site: "https://www.dailymaverick.co.za" section: "South Africa" author: "John Stupart" author_url: "https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/author/johnstupart/" canonical_url: "https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2017-10-26-while-you-were-sleeping-26-october-2017/" published: "2017-10-26T06:09:26" updated: "2017-10-26T06:09:27" lang: "en-ZA" word_count: 713 --- # While you were sleeping: 26 October 2017 > #CapeWaterGate unpacked and explained, Trump attempts to rally Republicans, and Fats Domino dead at 89. By John Stupart · Published 26 October 2017, 08:09 SAST · Updated 26 October 2017, 08:09 SAST ## Content **Thursday, 26 October 2017** *“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”* **Margaret Mead** ![Image](https://i2.createsend1.com/ei/d/8E/DD7/47C/csimport/849x493q70merten-MTBPS-analysis1.050424.jpg) STORY OF THE DAY [MTBPS Analysis: Gigaba’s bleak numbers amid the politics of the mini budget](http://subscriptions.touchbasepro.com/t/d-l-uincd-l-p/) By MARIANNE MERTEN Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba on Wednesday stoically delivered his maiden Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) that played kick-for-touch on the hard decisions. There was one exception: an announcement that government would sell “a portion” of its Telkom shares to offset the drain on the national purse by State-owned Entities (SOEs). But how tightly bound were his hands by other considerations, such as ANC factional battles ahead of its December national elective conference, or the recently introduced new ways of budgeting – the presidential fiscal committee or the Mandate Paper on spending priorities also headed from within the Presidency? [Water way to go - #CapeWaterGate unpacked](http://subscriptions.touchbasepro.com/t/d-l-uincd-l-x/) As the Portfolio Committee on Water and Sanitation continued to blame Western Cape citizens for the ongoing water crisis unfolding in the province, [Chronicle unpacks](http://subscriptions.touchbasepro.com/t/d-l-uincd-l-m/) just how we got to this point. Spoiler: the fault does not lie with the water user. DM's MARELISE VAN DER MERWE [takes a further](http://subscriptions.touchbasepro.com/t/d-l-uincd-l-c/)look at the discussions in Parliament yesterday. 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