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White Capetonians have become easy game for writers looking to pick holes in the story of the Rainbow Nation.
This thorough, painstaking serial reconstruction of the alleged killing by two white Coligny farmers of a black sunflower-stealing youth in October last year, puts the conviction and their long jail-term sentence in serious doubt.
In the second part of Politicsweb’s three part analysis of the Coligny trial, Gabriel Crouse takes a deep dive into what the port mortem tells us.
The ANC has long claimed that every successive national election has given it ‘an overwhelming mandate from our people’ – says Anthea Jeffery.
The take-away is that much more needs to be done – and fast – to fix Eskom in order to boost economic growth and impress investors.
Hardly an acceptable trade-off when most young South African’s anthem is Sifuna Umsebenzi. Or, to steal a Johnny Clegg line; ‘there’s a jobless army on the march.’
RW Johnson’s newest book ‘Fighting for a Dream’ is likely to prove equally “disturbing” to the ANC.
When Iqbal Survé bought Independent Newspapers with the help of the Public Investment Corporation, questions were asked on how independent the newspaper could be with that kind of help.
The polls suggest that the ANC remains far out in front of any other party. But it could be stopped, not by another party, but by an All-Star Coalition, says Chuck Stephens.
There seems to be a dogged, blinkered, almost insane insistence by the ANC on sticking to a century-old socialist land policy.