The ANC faces its own ‘Sophie’s choice’
Realpolitik - or the triumph of ruthless pragmatism in pursuit of [...]
The most difficult part of the GNU starts right now
"Never make predictions, least of all about the future" is [...]
A crucial fork in the road for South Africa’s future
Never has the Chinese curse or cliché, "May you live [...]
Spot the difference: ANC’s populist pivot in 2024 election
Decades back, the Sunday newspapers boasted large comic supplements featuring [...]
Fanfare for NHI, whisper for Political Party Funding Act amendment
Uncosted, untested, and – arguably – unconstitutional, our consensus-loving President [...]
ANC’s foreign policy: A misguided quest for global peace leadership
For a good dose of inflated rhetoric, dodgy statistics and [...]
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Political firestorm over DA ‘burning’ SA flag, not a peep about ANC ‘invasion’ of KZN GalleryPolitical firestorm over DA ‘burning’ SA flag, not a peep about ANC ‘invasion’ of KZN
African National Congress (ANC), British politics, Democratic Alliance, EFF, Elections, Helen Zille, South African Politics
Political firestorm over DA ‘burning’ SA flag, not a peep about ANC ‘invasion’ of KZN
The late Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert, who led the official [...]
When legends overshadow truth: Beyond blaming Zuma
Geoffrey Wheatcroft, writer, and historian, noted in 2018 in the New York [...]
Spectre of ANC-EFF coalition: Low probability, high anxiety
After the fog of war lifted from the industrial-scale slaughter [...]
Cough syrup slogan saga: Lessons beyond health
The political history of South Africa during the apogee of [...]
Whom you plan to vote for is a small question that has massive implications
Last week's death of social psychologist Daniel Kahneman, 90, was [...]
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Are Pandor’s Iran comments just ignorance, indifference or wilful blindness? GalleryAre Pandor’s Iran comments just ignorance, indifference or wilful blindness?
African National Congress (ANC), Cyril Ramaphosa, Elections, International Politics, Russian War, South African Politics, Vladimir Putin, World Politics
Are Pandor’s Iran comments just ignorance, indifference or wilful blindness?
US President Ronald Reagan is attributed as once wisely noting [...]
National’ needs to be removed from the party label ‘African National Congress’
Last Friday evening, I attended a dinner in Cape Town [...]
Chameleon Cyril adopts different colours over NHI
The death last week of pioneering sociologist Professor Edward Webster [...]
The ANC’s moral blindness when it comes to Hamas
Recently in Parliament, in answer to a question by DA [...]
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There are no straight lines in politics. Voters will get 3 versions of the ANC on 29 May GalleryThere are no straight lines in politics. Voters will get 3 versions of the ANC on 29 May
African National Congress (ANC), Cyril Ramaphosa, Democratic Alliance, EFF, Elections, Jacob Zuma, Julius Malema, Russian War, South African Politics
There are no straight lines in politics. Voters will get 3 versions of the ANC on 29 May
More than a decade back, I had a memorable dinner [...]
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Dial-a-quote Mbalula uncharacteristically silent on Alexei Navalny’s death GalleryDial-a-quote Mbalula uncharacteristically silent on Alexei Navalny’s death
African National Congress (ANC), Cyril Ramaphosa, Democratic Alliance, International Politics, Jacob Zuma, John Steenhuisen, Russian War, Vladimir Putin
Dial-a-quote Mbalula uncharacteristically silent on Alexei Navalny’s death
If you were doing a mental health check on the [...]
Ramaphosa’s ‘credibility gap’ now stands as a yawning chasm of disbelief
Last Thursday in the United States, a special prosecutor, Robert [...]
Faced with a difficult election, the ANC is fuelling a ‘paranoid style of politics’
At the Grammy Awards on Sunday night, pop sensation, an [...]
SA’s latest fit of morality sponsored by the ‘bankrupt’ ANC
In 1843, Lord Thomas Macaulay, an English politician and historian, [...]
Enough with government’s ‘obligatory optimism’
Enver Hoxha was the remorseless Communist dictator who held the [...]
Israel and South Africa: Many ironies at play as ‘hard cases make bad law’
No end of ironies emanate from the International Court of [...]