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Though Julius Malema may have struck panic into the hearts of segments of the population when he stopped short of calling for the slaughter of white people, the soundbite that should have been cause for disquiet was the one of the EFF leader allegedly rallying the faithful to take up unoccupied land back in 2014. …
Illegally taking up land amid a housing shortage Read More »
Even at his most impassioned Songezo Zibi’s pastoral etiquette speaks as much to his mien as it simultaneously raises a salient question: sure, he’s one of the educated ones with an impressive resume but is the man from Mqanduli’s skin calloused enough to weather the vicissitudes of the SA political climate? At least insofar as …
On the Campaign Trail: Can the Editor Zibi RISE to the Occassion? Read More »
In what is suspected to be a politically motivated incident, the ANC sub-regional chairperson Siya Phololo’s bakkie went up in flames in the wee hours of Thursday morning. This follows a fortnight of intermittent protests on the back of employment to the SANRAL road reconstruction projects due to get underway along the N1 highway near …
If the Multi-Party Charter for SA (colloquially known as the Moonshot Pact) could be viewed as Democratic Alliance leader John Steenhuisen’s biggest political move, the reportage in its wake was rather unenthused, derisive, and very far from convinced. Held at the same venue as the CODESA negotiations perhaps it was the brazen allusion that South …
Shooting for the Moon, but is there enough fuel in the rocket? Read More »
News wafting through the political front are so bewildering, so defying of logic it’s hard to reconcile them as anything but fake news. Or something you’d expect on one of those free-to-air news channels that nobody who hasn’t settled his monthly DStv installment would bother tuning in to. Except the ones in question are – …
Apart from being stone-cold forthright, Herman Mashaba also has a reputation for being very, very stubborn and harbouring the type of views that verge on the extreme: Condemning rapists and murderers to the noose; mass deportations visited on undocumented foreign nationals; a hardline military presence at our “porous borders” and South Africans who do not …
Thursday, 8 February, 19:00 – Much of the country is glued to the box watching as President Cyril Ramaphosa delivers his State of the Nation address (Sona), except he’s not. At least not yet. For now the yawning circus that has become par for the course amongst our “Honourable Members” wreaks havoc inside Cape Town …
SONA 2023: The Energy Crisis and Everything Else, The President Speaks. Read More »
