Forests fall when Bhisho sits ...

While the rest of the world is looking for environmentally-friendly, carbon neutral ways of doing business, the officials based in the Eastern Cape capital of Bhisho are still firm believers in the power of paper.

At the last sitting of the legislature in April, the tables used by MPLs and observers were positively groaning under the weight of thousands of pages of documentation related to the provincial budget (above). Among those seen contemplating these weighty tomes was Democratic Alliance chief whip Bobby Stevenson (right), himself no, er, lightweight.