Helen Zille locks horns with the ANC, SA Communist Party, COSATU, ANC Youth League and, judging by comments on internet forums, even some of her own supporters. Her letter to the Cape Argus as published by the Sowetan has raised a furore that won’t be dying down for a while. It has even been picked [...]
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The DA (Democratic Alliance) looks like it is going to win a majority in the Western Cape Provincial Legislature. And it will rule, either by itself or with one or more of the smaller parties as a coalition partner/s. This puts the ANC (African National Congress) in the strange and new (for them) position of [...]
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It is tiring me just watching how much energy, time and money is being spent by the DA (Democratic Alliance) in trying to crucify Jacob Zuma. Let’s put aside whether Jacob Zuma is guilty or not guilty. Let’s put aside the legal and procedural convolutions that were gone through to arrive at the status quo. [...]
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The first day of April and that means? Not here. We aim to be serious most of the time. The politics of elections go on and it is the politicians that look more like fools every day. I don’t think that there is a single thing they won’t say to try and win that vote. [...]
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I have always had this impression that large numbers of senior ANC (African National Congress) members and officials are first and foremost ANC members and then only South Africans. In other words, they would put the interests of the ANC over and above those of the country. I don’t think that this is a new [...]
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… in South Africa and his attendance of the World Cup 2010 Peace Conference (neither of which happened). This was peace conference that was organised by the World Cup 2010 organising committee. A peace conference that had the support and patronship of three of South Africa’s nobel laureates, Nelson Mandela, FW de Klerk and the [...]
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