GORDHAN RUN’S A CABAL
MINISTER PRAVIN GORDHAN RUNS A CABAL AND OPERATES A PARALLEL STATE APPARATUS IN SOUTH AFRICA Immediately after the Economic Freedom Fighters’ (EFF) Press Conference, on Tuesday, 16thOctober 2018, [...]
Land: Guarding against single story narratives
By Professor Elmien du Plessis In his farm novel Donkerland, Deon Opperman states that there is no place in history where one can stand back far enough and in telling your story be able to claim: [...]
Economic freedom under ANC a big fallacy
Economic Freedom in Our Life’s time, is beyond our reach The world bank report(Overcoming Poverty and Inequality in South Africa : An Assessment of Drivers, Constraints and Opportunities) that [...]
Private sector corruption rampant – SAFTU
SAFTU condemns private-sector corruption More evidence is now emerging to support the view of the South African Federation of Trade Unions that the epidemic of corruption and fraud which has [...]
At least Zuma was in charge of the ANC national executive committee (NEC)
Ramaphosa no better leader than the rest: Towards the Polokwane conference, we were told how Zuma was a man of the people, a unifier and friend of the working class. Again, the media favored [...]
Comatose ANC sold out the revolution!
Rudderless ANC surrendered radical economic transformation struggle immediately after their unbanning Over 40 years ago, Steve Bantu Biko said, ‘There is no running away from the fact that now in [...]
Is time for struggle heroes to hand over the baton!
Great leaders know when to quit. When Nelson Mandela decided to quit active politics, most people felt it was premature and also feared that the reconciliatory tone would fizzle and retire with [...]
Is bizarre to note that the ANC looks out of sorts and ready to relinquish power
Economics/markets and factional politics don’t mix. The man from Nkandla is running riot and appears to be an astute master of factional ANC internal politics. His benefactors are triumphant [...]
White Monopoly Capitalist (WMC) vs Black Political Elites (BPE) or black liberation struggle heroes
There’s a growing debate of which is better between the past and the present, colonialism vs democracy? Lately, Helen Zille even think that after all colonization was not all that bad! Well, [...]
Reactional ANC have no balls to implement radical economic transformation
From CODESA, GEAR, NDP to the increasing noises of radical transformation, the ANC has not demonstrate any radical appetite to transform the economy. In fact, from CODESA, the ANC made too many [...]
Trump Triumph is a clear rejection of capitalist biased western liberalism
Inequality and joblessness is amongst the reasons the masses are rejecting the establishment. Ordinary people are still recovering from the catastrophic 2008 recession. It was a sign that [...]
The Honourable Thing To Do
Introduction The decision of the Constitutional Court which found that President Jacob Zuma violated the Constitution and his oath of office, was accepted by the ANC leadership structures. It [...]
Trump Escalates Conflict With Congressional Republicans. Donald Trump’s “Ultra-Right Alternative”
Tensions within the Republican Party exploded into public recriminations Tuesday, with presidential candidate Donald Trump issuing a series of strident statements denouncing House Speaker Paul [...]
Blunt Blade and the incoherent political rhetoric paints a bleak future for our tertiary education
The free education fight is an old fight and have since claimed many causalities over the years. All former black or previously disadvantage institutions have been in this battle for free [...]
Yes, the ANC can lose power in 2019!
Given the ANC dwindling prospects in the Western Cape and its failure to regain lost power, it is currently unimaginable that the mighty ANC once governed the province and the city. As things [...]
The emotive land restitution have become a game of superior economic argument than restorative justice:
Those who got land through unjust laws have manage to characterize the land restitution as a detrimental economic strategy. Basically, they are saying let’s move on, let bygones be bygones to [...]
Coalition trade-offs, is it for service delivery or self-serving from losing power?
The election dust have barely settled and the new mayor of Ekurhuleni Mr Mzwandile Masina is already on a warpath. He is the only ANC mayoral candidate in Gauteng to survive the DA/EFF onslaught [...]
The Wrath of the Debased ANC from the opposition benches: What to expect!
The oppositional style of the EFF at national level challenged the status quo. From being branded the anarchist, disrespectful to being accused of bringing the house into disrepute. The [...]
Post-election postmortem and its political conundrums
The greatest irony in the recent local government elections is that the opposition used former ANC leaders for inspiration, but the ANC itself could not be inspired internally by its leaders. The [...]
Election polls and detailed research should be undertaken to understand voting constituencies and plan appropriate election strategies
Due to historical reasons the African National Congress has millions of admirers who are not active members of the party. It is still a broad church, but it is rapidly losing the leader of the [...]
On Becoming the Winner and the Loser on the Election Day
You may blame it on history. But, as one Jonathan Moyo would probably put it, perennial wisdom from Devine revelation and human experience dictates that all earthily things, good or bad, [...]
The EFF holds an “ACE’ up their sleeves as to who will govern the highly contested metros in Gauteng:
The 3rd of August is fast approaching and all the campaign will be subjected to the final test on the day. As we are moving closer to the faithful day, the campaign will intensify. Mudslinging [...]
The Trouble in the SABC Replicates Trouble within the ANC
One of the most unfortunate circumstances that have characterized democratic processes in South Africa is the puddling of falsehood that anyone who possesses scandalous past, questionable [...]
Should Mbombela united consider buying a PSL status to fast track its road to the PSL?
Money can definitely buy a PSL status. The only team that was base in Mpumalanga Province has been sold to Cape Town City FC. The supporters of Mpumalanga black aces have no choice but to [...]
Some of the difficulties in fighting racism stem from the CODESA negotiations:
Countries like Germany that went through a painful history like ours, have enacted laws criminalizing both the denial of the Holocaust and the promotion of Nazi ideology. The aim of those laws [...]
Self-enrichment supersedes “serving the people” hence the rise of stomach political killings:
Poor votes: Politicians knows very well that without the poor vote, they are very much poor themselves. Unfortunately until the masses learn that without accountability, there’s no reason for [...]
Genuine leaders transcend their constituency boundaries
As Niccolò Machiavelli puts it “It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.” South Korea is a perfect example of rule by fear. The population knows they have to “fear and [...]