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Zille angers ANC and Partners

By Tony May 13, 2009

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… Read More »

Will the ANC be a good opposition party?

By Tony April 23, 2009

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… Read More »

DA over-doing the anti-Zuma thing?

By Tony April 9, 2009

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. Let’s… Read More »

Political Mudslinging

By Tony April 1, 2009

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.
It… Read More »

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