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The impasse was yet another signal of the shifting center of gravity in the media world — one moving away from linear-television stalwarts like the Walt Disney Co.

Both those prolific stalwarts, who excelled with swing and seam, are now retired.

The spotlight also fell on Saturday night stalwart Strictly Come Dancing, with Davie apologising to contestants after complaints of abusive behaviour on the show.

In recent years Zuma-Sambudla has emerged as the former president's most stalwart supporter regularly seen by his side.

Such theological reasoning is serious, stalwart and chilly, not unrelated to the cold logic of double predestination and the denial of free will.