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SA once had a clear vision, now we’re just a muddle

By |December 5th, 2023|Categories: African National Congress (ANC), Cyril Ramaphosa, Democratic Alliance, South African Politics, Thabo Mbeki, World Politics|

You need to go quite far back to find a [...]

In SA, hard and soft power battle against each other

By |November 21st, 2023|Categories: African National Congress (ANC), Cyril Ramaphosa, Democratic Alliance, EFF, South African Politics|

In the degraded discourse around local politics a niche backhander [...]

The eerie silence after the weekend’s twin events in Cape Town has been deafening

By |November 15th, 2023|Categories: African National Congress (ANC), Cyril Ramaphosa, Democratic Alliance, South African Politics|

Due to economic headwinds gusting in the face of the [...]

Can Poland’s PiSed-off voters show SA the way?

By |October 29th, 2023|Categories: African National Congress (ANC), Argentina, Elections, International Politics, South African Politics, World Politics|

Political anoraks certainly, and probably many concerned citizens, will enjoy [...]

ANC’s line on terrorism has changed along with the presidency

By |October 24th, 2023|Categories: African National Congress (ANC), Cyril Ramaphosa, International Politics, South African Politics, World Politics|

Gen David Petraeus, former commander of US wars in Afghanistan [...]

Festooned with crater-like potholes, Winnie Mandela Drive is a another sad ANC epitaph

By |October 4th, 2023|Categories: African National Congress (ANC), Democratic Alliance, Eskom, South African Politics|

Barney Mthombothi, writing in the Sunday Times, decried the decision [...]

Prince Buthelezi’s death has triggered some hypocrisy, amnesia and contradiction

By |September 20th, 2023|Categories: African National Congress (ANC), Buthelezi, IFP, Nelson Mandela, South African Politics|

The funeral on Saturday of Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi in Ulundi, [...]

Business leaders will have to fill the governance vacuum

By |September 13th, 2023|Categories: African National Congress (ANC), Democratic Alliance, Elections, Gwede Mantashe, South African Politics|

Overlooking Kirstenbosch National Botanic Garden in Cape Town beside a [...]

Maladministration and infrastructural neglect at the core of Joburg fire tragedy

By |September 6th, 2023|Categories: African National Congress (ANC), Cyril Ramaphosa, Elections, South African Politics|

The weekly columns of the late newspaper editor, Ken Owen, [...]

Yikes! The moonshot pact is run from a pizza shop basement

By |August 27th, 2023|Categories: African National Congress (ANC), American Politics, Cyril Ramaphosa, Democratic Alliance, EFF, John Steenhuisen, Russian War, South African Politics, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin, World Politics|

As a Brics scene-stealer, it was hard to beat the [...]

While US stays on top, the bucking horse of the rule of law throws SA off

By |August 23rd, 2023|Categories: African National Congress (ANC), American Politics, Cyril Ramaphosa, Democratic Alliance, Elections, Jacob Zuma, South African Politics|

Famed 19th-century British constitutional scholar AV Dicey is credited with [...]

The multiparty coalition needs cool heads and a spirit of compromise

By |August 23rd, 2023|Categories: African National Congress (ANC), Cyril Ramaphosa, Democratic Alliance, EFF, Elections, John Steenhuisen, Parliament, South African Politics|

Last week’s opposition get-together at Emperor’s Palace (previously World Trade [...]

Coalition politics: when to do a deal with the devil?

By |August 10th, 2023|Categories: African National Congress (ANC), Cyril Ramaphosa, Donald Trump, EFF, Elections, South African Politics, World Politics|

Novelist John le Carre offered the thought that “a desk [...]

It’s time the president took off his rose-tinted glasses and faced reality

By |July 26th, 2023|Categories: African National Congress (ANC), Cyril Ramaphosa, Opinion, South African Politics|

Guardian journalist John Crace coined the killer phrase “aural valium” [...]

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