🔒 RW Johnson: Apartheid, ANC’s foundation myth, not working so well anymoreÂ
Oxford don and political columnist RW Johnson suggests that the ANC’s reliance on apartheid as a justifying crutch may be waning.
Oxford don and political columnist RW Johnson suggests that the ANC’s reliance on apartheid as a justifying crutch may be waning.
Disabled people were blasted with water cannons after they failed to practice social distancing in growing queues outside a SASSA office.
Lindiwe Zulu is seeking to smuggle in a permanent ‘social relief of distress’ grant by means of regulations on which she has allowed a scant three weeks for public comment.
Deputy President David Mabuza is back in the country after his trip to Russia where he sought medical treatment.
SLR wishes President Cyril Ramaphosa and his team good luck, although he’s not convinced there isn’t a Gupta friend or two lurking in the cabinet.
South Africa’s ruling ANC has called for the lifting of sanctions against neighbouring Zimbabwe, where clashes between security forces and anti-government protesters claimed at least 12 lives.
Here’s the inside story of the day President Jacob Zuma was forced into reversing his Finance Minister appointment of David Van Rooyen, replacing him with Pravin Gordhan, the man he had fired a year and a half earlier.
Ed Herbst is puzzled by Jackson Mthembu’s suggestion to reporters in parliament that Hlaudi Motsoeneng is not a deployed cadre.
Former journalist Ed Herbst says the Khwezi protest was a defining moment in South African politics. Strike a woman, strike a rock.
Cape Messenger editor Donwald Pressly says the SABC’s censorship of content is all wrong, as squeezing the messenger won’t kill the message.