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The ANC’s bullying will fail to quash freedom
There has been much gnashing of teeth at the decision made by the editor of City Press, Ferial Haffajee, to remove a photo of Bretty Murray’s The Spear from the newspaper’s website. When it comes to the media, the ANC … Continue reading
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How corruption sustains the ANC – and is killing our democracy
Official opposition leader Helen Zille’s latest weekly newsletter offers up an essential analysis of why corruption within the ANC is endemic and how its deep, poisonous tentacles are steadily strangling South Africa’s constitutional democracy. Read it below: Why Zuma couldn’t … Continue reading
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Zuma – Mugabe’s messenger
According to the Financial Times, President Zuma will ask the UK to drop its targeted sanctions against key figures in Robert Mugabe’s kleptocracy. EU and US sanctions have been a serious inconvenience to the opulent, tax-funded lifestyles of the Zanu … Continue reading
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Zuma’s parole for pals
Many people, myself included, had suspected that convicted fraudster and pal of President Zuma, Schabir Shaik, managed to get medical parole through having friends in high places. Only terminally ill prisoners qualify for medical parole; it seemed hugely doubtful that … Continue reading
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Why there’s not much hope for Cope
This op-ed was written on the eve of South Africa’s elections in April. When Mosiuoa ‘Terror’ Lekota and Mbhazima Shilowa announced they were “serving divorce papers” on the African National Congress (ANC), their political home, there was a frenzy of … Continue reading
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Debunking the Daily Mail’s doomsayer
On Sunday 29 March, a devastating article by Peter Hitchens on Jacob Zuma and South Africa’s future was published in Britain’s Daily Mail. Couched in a sickening, sensationalist discourse swirling with racist and colonialist undertones, the story employed gross misrepresentation, … Continue reading
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The poephol shall govern!
Short of an Mbeki groupie’s assassination attempt on ANC leader Jacob Zuma (which is unlikely to happen considering the R1 million of taxpayer’s money spent each month for protection), come April, the great man will be state president. Rumours abound … Continue reading
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Mbeki’s ousting backfires
Ouch. Just when the post-Polokwane mob thought they were invincible the “counter-revolutionary” judiciary dared to turn the tables. Although we will only know on 12 January whether the Nicholson ruling is to be overturned, Friday’s performance in Bloemfontein indicates there … Continue reading
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Why Zuma allows Malema to show democracy the finger
Isn’t it astounding? That a man who incites people to murder and violence, who uses hate speech and insults senior members of his party is still around and playing a prominent political role in the ruling party, nogal? Indeed, most … Continue reading
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Firing Mbeki ensures imminence of ANC split
Stupid, stupid, stupid. Zuma’s coterie, drunk on power, might think they’ve got the upper hand in their battle against Mbeki. But by ignominiously firing a man well known for his pride, they are simply hastening the demise of the ANC … Continue reading
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