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Pity the Gauteng ANC, which is doing better than any other provincial government held by the party. It has to take flak from President Jacob Zuma’s...
"Transformation” – or “radical economic transformation” – has become the buzzword of our contemporary political discourse. Few would deny...
Somewhere between the bluster and the bust-up last week, Julius Malema reminded members of the National Assembly of their role in ensuring Parliament...
The State of the Nation address is an opportunity for the president to pronounce on the government’s performance for the past year and on its...
It is not some kind of counterweight to the ANC, Black First Land First, the Economic Freedom Fighters, or any other movement campaigning for redress...
Adriaan Basson, in his book Zuma Exposed, first used the word “bullshit” to describe the president’s and others’ obfuscatory or...
The tsunami of fake news, half-fake news, secret propaganda, “black ops” and the like that is sweeping the world could hardly have swelled so...
The Democratic Alliance, in its explanation of Mmusi Maimane’s photo-op with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, says its...
Last week, we published a front-page story that did not mention the words ANC, Zuma or Gupta. Instead, it showed the prospect of an apartheid-era...
The sporadic and phlegmatic attempts by the government to look into compensation for the gains of corporate South Africa during apartheid have thus...
Perhaps it is because there have been so many of them that the thought of the ANC’s annual January 8 statement barely raises more than a pained...
The department of basic education’s intention to begin giving school principals competency tests as a condition of their employment is laudable...
