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Triangulate or tergiversate: The only two moves left in the political playbook
From Bismarck to Blair, the art of political triangulation has delivered landslide victories – but as Cyril Ramaphosa’s hollow pivot on immigration shows, co-opting the politics of others is no substitute for the courage to [...]
The DA’s Kempton Park moment with a shock eight-vote win in Evaton
From the shock of Wakkerstroom in 1924 to the DA’s razor-thin eight-vote victory in a 98% black township nearly a century later, South Africa’s by-elections have often signalled shifts in the political weather long before [...]
Anti-fascism, Russian style: What was the ANC doing in Moscow this week? GalleryAnti-fascism, Russian style: What was the ANC doing in Moscow this week?
African National Congress (ANC), Iran, Mokonyane, Russia, Russian War, South African Politics, Trump, United States, US President, Venezuela, World Politics
Anti-fascism, Russian style: What was the ANC doing in Moscow this week?
While South Africa faces xenophobic blowback from its African neighbours, the ANC’s Nomvula Mokonyane spent Africa Day in Moscow – a telling snapshot of a party whose foreign policy is mired in Cold War nostalgia, [...]
The lessons SA’s leaders don’t want to learn
While Cyril Ramaphosa traded shame and fury in Parliament over SA’s jobs catastrophe, three of the world’s foremost historians gathered in Franschhoek to offer the kind of honest reckoning our leaders refuse to have with [...]
