Business confidence, I read somewhere, is back up where it was six months ago, before people realised President Cyril Ramaphosa was going to do this his way and not turn the entire Zuma catastrophe around in an afternoon. That's good. The folks who were spooked by the whole thing into leaving the country have by now left. The rest of us have work to do.
If you've been following the news and the evidence coming out of the commissions of inquiry into state capture and the South African Revenue Service (Sars), you'll have an idea just how toxic Jacob Zuma's years were. And by now we all know that while some heads have rolled there are still hundreds of Zuma appointees lurking all over all tiers of the government.
They will take time to work out of the system, and Ramaphosa has his own orchestra to conduct. He wants a crescendo around about March or April next year, just before a May election. By then he'll have a national director of public prosecutions in place. There'll be arrests, I promise.
In fact, parliament has just ratified a brand-new extradition treaty with the United Arab Emirates, and I would be surprised if there were not efforts already under way to get the Gupta brothers back here and in prison in time for election day.
A leader with even a little flair would organise their return two to three weeks before the vote. I would land them at Waterkloof and this time invite the world's press to witness them being escorted to waiting police vans.
Either that, or land them at OR Tambo and taxi to the Oppenheimers' Fireblade terminal on the far side of the airport. It's there that they sealed poor Malusi Gigaba's fate. They had been using the terminal until one day a Gupta lackey tried to slide a case full of diamonds on to their plane. He declined an instruction to run the case through a security screen and took it back to Saxonwold.
That's when the Guptas realised they needed their own terminal. Smuggling cash and diamonds is a difficult business. As per the chain of command, they pressed Duduzane to speak to his dad, who spoke to Gigaba, who then had to go back on his word and decline formal permission for the Fireblade terminal to operate.
Gigaba subsequently lied about having verbally given permission, and has twice been called out for it by the courts. His political career is at the very brink of extinction as a result.
But not before the mob works itself into a delirium about wealthy people having their own private terminal.
They will ignore that fact that Lanseria is a privately owned airport into which and out of which wealthy people fly from and to the rest of the world every day, their movements serviced by immigration officials from Gigaba's department of home affairs. There's another private airport near the Kruger Park serving international flights.
They'll ignore (or just don't know) that OR Tambo itself is home to hundreds of thousands of square metres of privately owned bonded warehouses, policed by Sars customs officers.
Rich people just are not going to land at airports where they have to stand in shuffling queues. Almost every Fortune 500 company around the world flies its own jets. Can you imagine landing your Gulfstream at ORT and having to somehow get through normal passport control?
And, by the way, you're looking for an emerging market to invest in. And forget the "official" VIP lounges at ORT - they are the opposite of luxury. And the world is full of private international terminals. That's how the rich and powerful roll. Live with it.
We should be encouraging more Fireblades. It's insane that Cape Town doesn't have one. The more rich people come here and the easier it is for them to relax and enjoy our hospitality, the more likely they are to invest here. And, sadly for the haters, we just can't live without other people's money because we don't save enough of our own.
Nicky Oppenheimer told a parliamentary committee the other day that Fireblade had some 14,000 movements (arrivals and departures) since it opened in 2014, of which about 5% were Oppenheimer-related. It gives you a sense of what is possible. We need to cater also for people who can, literally from anywhere in the world, do what they want when they want. If we can, we get to keep some of their money.
But where was I? Ah yes, Cyril's crescendo. It just has to happen this way - a slow boil to a triumphant few closing weeks of an election campaign. Arrests, a few perp walks, charges being laid and prosecuted. A resurgent Sars. It can all be done...