Monthly Archives: February 2016

With Trump, as with Malema, Fear is the Key to Poll Success

Never underestimate the power of the negative — especially when it comes to election campaigns. Scare tactics often trump logic at the ballot booth. If you are feeling somewhat scratchy following the budget hair shirt our maestro minister of finance had to wear on Wednesday in parliament, look away from these shores for some relief. [...]

Zuma: A delicate time in a dangerous year

It was Gauntlett, apparently, who determined that, in order to save Zuma legally, he would have to wound him politically Long ago when British Prime Minister Harold Wilson was under political siege, he shrugged off cascading crises around him with the phrase, “A week is a long time in politics.‘‘ Decades later, when Conservative cabinet [...]

Why Iowa caucus is not a barometer of popular sentiment in the US

Iowa is very different from the rest of the US. With an ever-shrinking white majority in the country as a whole, this state is over 91% pale On Tuesday when you found all your DStv news channels clogged with news from Iowa, blame it on a largely unknown former governor of the US state of [...]

Mbeki’s race rage — and what he did (not) do about it

Thabo Mbeki’s detractors await his defence of real areas of controversy around his rule — literally the A to Z, from AIDS to Zimbabwe, writes Tony Leon BACK at the dawn of the last century, readers of The Strand Magazine in London lined up in droves to buy the next instalment of the latest Sherlock [...]

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