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Susan Booysen wonders aloud here what damage the ‘Ace-Guard’ could wreak, post-election on South Africa.
The Director of the Political Futures Consultancy, Daniel Silke thinks the ANC scandals offer an opportunity for the opposition to make inroads into the ruling party’s support.
Upon reading Political Studies fundi Steven Friedman’s analysis of how parties are approaching this election, it’s hard not to imagine Madiba turning in his grave.
There’s no doubt that Chuck Stephens, the executive director of the Desmond Tutu Centre for Leadership, favours a DA-led coalition as the optimal outcome of the impending elections.
Paul Hoffman has an urgent to-do list for the NPA. And Ramaphosa supporters may not like to see what is at the top of this list.
David Bullard, a popular satirical columnist, casts his eyes over the smaller parties that have collectively paid an astronomical amount to contest the May election.
The big prize of wresting power out of the hands of the ANC could put very strange bedfellows together.
Why is this important to us? Well in South Africa over the past few years, the number of cohabitants has increased by almost 100% each year.
In South Africa, journalists have been chastised for limp coverage of the worst environmental disaster to hit Zimbabwe and Mozambique in decades.
Some would claim the movement is irreversibly corrupted while others would point to Ramaphosa’s achievements – though Ann Bernstein hones in on a far greater problem than our all -too-familiar State Capture.