For Jacob Zuma to go, Cyril Ramaphosa must win
Indications from out of the ANC NEC meeting of this past weekend show that the likelihood of a motion of no confidence succeeding in…
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Politicians don’t do shame very well
In every government, there are those who prize the trappings of a ministerial position above their own integrity, who are intoxicated by power and…
The toxic impact of money on politics has many shades and manifestations
The toxic impact of money on politics has many shades and manifestations. To untangle this web will take some doing. It will mean a…
Zuma’s nuclear plans thwarted – for now
It’s been another not-so-good week and a bit for South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma. Apart from being booed at the Congress of South African…
Citizens must unite to save corruption-crippled SA
Parliament has become a site of factional ANC struggles, with Speaker Baleka Mbete presiding over the House in a compromised manner, due to her…
Ramaphosa may again be the ‘nearly man’ of SA politics
These are difficult days for our country and as the axing of Pravin Gordhan and Mcebisi Jonas has shown, in President Jacob Zuma’s cabinet…
Active citizenry must organise for change
South Africans currently appear to be rising up as active citizens with the primary aim of removing Jacob Zuma as the President of the…
SA stuck between hope and despair
We live in precarious times, wafting as we are between glimmers of hope and then despair. The most recent political discourse has largely been…
How do we renew the colours of our Constitution?
This is a dangerous moment in the history of our democracy and not unlike the last heady days of the Republic. We might do…
How those in power flout the rule of law
Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng is, proverbially speaking, “taking names” in the Sassa debacle. The week has ended with a pregnant pause as Mogoeng and…