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With an election little more than four months away, the governing African National Congress is panicking, writes Ed Herbst.
It’s been a long walk to prison for corrupt ANC politician John Block. He’s fought the sentence against him in a similar Stalingrad strategy employed by the likes of Jacob Zuma.
With the cynical appointment of Dumisani Hlophe as political editor at the SABC just prior to the 2019 election, Cyril Ramaphosa’s ANC has shown yet again that it has put party before country.
Sometimes the essence of a debate is best contextualised and summarised by an intermediary or perhaps more accurately here, facilitator, which is the role veteran journalist and political observer Ed Herbst plays for UCT’s most outspoken anti-Fallist academic, Professor Tim Crowe.
The ANC is in the spotlight over an environmental disaster in the Vaal Dam. Years of financial mismanagement and corruption have contributed to the degradation of a vital resource.
The tragic death of Professor Bongani Mayosi has underscored several ugly truths about South Africa, starting with the uncomfortable reality that black racism towards others exists.
The public broadcaster – despite trying to change its brand to being ‘independent and impartial’ – still has ANC propagandist tendencies.
All the indications are that Ramaphoria is waning so what can be done to rekindle and re-energise that enthusiasm?
Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba disgraced himself last week by lying to South Africans about the status of the Guptas’ citizenry.
Ed Herbst compares Independent Newspapers so-called ‘exposé’ of ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa as a ‘blesser” with the behaviour of some of its senior staffers.