All the clever headlines about Tshwane teetering on the brink of collapse will hopefully stop now that Cilliers Brink has finally been ousted as the capital city’s mayor. Hogarth was bitterly disappointed by how quick and easy the whole affair proved to be. For weeks, the war talk from both side suggested we were headed for an epic battle for the control of the city and its budget. On the day, Brink arrived in style in a blue suit and dark shades like a politician with a Machiavellian trick or two up his sleeve. Had he secretly convinced some ActionSA councillors to defy Hairman and vote against the motion of no confidence in him or did the Fikile Mbalula of the DA just cut a fresh deal with the Helen Zille of the ANC to let him keep the mayoral chain? One never knows, anything is possible in these Government of National Fraternité times...