A spokesman for the president, Jacob Zuma, said he was checking the reports, while the SABC state broadcaster, which covered the memorial, said it was not involved as it had its own on-screen signers.
Amazingly the police won't get involved as it's a matter of civil law.
This downturn might be one of those moments, involving as it does the bursting of a huge housing bubble.
But the convention of the aside is trickier, involving as it does the raw material of theatre itself.
It was brutal, no doubt, as it always is when the Italians are involved, as it always is when the modern professional is involved, full stop.
And it heralded the arrival of the modern, multinational gang in Britain, involving as it did an Italian, Israeli, Pakistani and Russian, as well as homegrown criminals.
The piece is as effective in demonstrating what war does with the minds and hearts of those involved, as it is at showing us the devastating physical consequences.
"This project may well be a learning experience as much for the young barristers and junior lawyers involved as it is for the young people in the classroom.
The Secret Agent has been described as Joseph Conrad's least filmable novel, involving, as it does, not big boats and compromised heroism but internal monologues, mainly.
