September promises spring and the cruellest of months for our beloved kleptocracy. Yesterday it emerged that the Hawks have indeed handed the National Prosecuting Authority a case docket implicating Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan in the establishment of a "rogue" SA Revenue Service unit and detailing corruption charges against him relating to his extension of former SARS commissioner Ivan Pillay's contract. Scores of witnesses are waiting in the wings, chief among them apparently Helgard Lombard, who allegedly installed spyware for SARS at NPA offices and who has now turned state witness.A decision on whether to charge Gordhan and three former SARS officials has not yet been taken, but numerous insiders say arrest warrants are imminent and will probably be issued before Zuma returns from his pressing business elsewhere on September 7.All this implies that Gordhan will not be left to do his job and that the process of frustrating him has only just begun.It is another nail in our economic coffin.As we know, with Gordhan out of the way, Zuma will be laughing all the way to the Treasury and will have access to the bank accounts of the parastatals that Gordhan has been trying so hard to make fit for purpose.State capture will be complete and, as one lowly newspaperman has put it, the day of the jackal will have dawned.The only silver lining to this mugging is that we probably won't get to hear about any of it.If plans to regulate the media, as tabled at a transformation colloquium last week, are finally punched through, we will have a media that doesn't just, in the august words of our Communications Minister Faith Muthambi, "reflect the views of the few but becomes a mirror of all in society".This new fearless media will "drive a narrative that inspires hope in our people". And so, while the thief plunders at will, that poor, hope-filled face in the mirror will be yours, dear reader. Or not...