It’s been a confusing week, but at least one thing has finally been cleared up: when you break infrastructure for ideological reasons in a few hours you’re a saboteur; when you break it for ideological reasons over 25 years, you’re a government.

That, however, is all we know.

For example, we don’t know why Cyril Ramaphosa mentioned sabotage as a contributing factor in this week’s escalation to stage 6 deindustrialising when the alleged incident happened last week...