South Africa is a failed state. We’re just another country that offered so much promise, and yet we’ve delivered so little and are doomed to end up on the trash heap of history. This is a sentiment that has been bandied about quite candidly over recent months and is a hypothesis that could easily be …
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Ukraine is known as a breadbasket region. It plays an important role in the overall production of food crops like wheat. In 2020, McKinsey Global Institute published an article with extensive research on the significant loss of crops in a breadbasket region and the effect it has on the global food chain. Vladimir Putin has been strategetic …
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Has there been any other political party over the last decade that has seen so much talent leave its ranks to pursue ventures outside of politics, adjacent to politics, and just downright switching sides for a different political party than the Democratic Alliance? The most recent departure is Mbali Ntuli, a rising star in the …
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During the liberation struggle, there was a high price paid for South Africa to achieve its Constitutional democracy, but when the governing party that led us to that democracy wishes it could govern as the former oppressor did, we start to enter dangerous territory. The ANC has been challenged in court on so many occasions …
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If individuals with a checkered past and who have been publicly outed and shamed for their dastardly deeds are shunned by society, then within the ANC they find refuge and even thrive to new heights. Political commentator Justice Malala writes that thieves and fraudsters flourish within the governing party and names three of its most …
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Reflecting on Human Rights Day can be a sobering moment as we remember what happened on March 21, 1960, in Sharpeville where apartheid police opened fire on a crowd of people protesting passbook laws thus killing 69 people. When the ANC finally came to power in the 1990s, March 21 was named Human Rights Day …
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The road to a second term as ANC president is less riddled with potholes and obstacles than the road to a second term as president of the republic for the incumbent Cyril Ramaphosa. The president will face less competition when he heads to the ANC elective conference at the end of the year than what …
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Is it government overreach or a pandemic management technique when the government decides to extend the national state of disaster to take it past the two-year mark? Stephen Grootes writes the decision to extend the national state of disaster has sparked a debate by detractors over whether it is really necessary for the country to …
Talks between Ukraine and Russia’s foreign ministers have yielded little progress thus far in the delicate diplomatic give and take that peaceful negotiation often are, and there is little sign that we’ll see any sort of resolution soon. When two parties are at an impasse, bringing in a third party to act as a mediator …
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President Cyril Ramaphosa still has a chance to save his legacy or at the very least improve it so that he is not remembered as the president who sat on his hands and painfully deliberated and consulted on every decision so as not to tick off anyone in the ANC and hold his fragile coalition …
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