Daniel Silke: SA goes ‘lame-duck’ as hobbled Presidency awaits fate
Daniel Silke says whilst South Africans increasingly see the demise of Zuma’s presidency, there is still little consensus about what comes next.
Daniel Silke says whilst South Africans increasingly see the demise of Zuma’s presidency, there is still little consensus about what comes next.
Sometimes heroes come from the most unlikely sources. In this case, hero may be a strong word so early on but at least ANC chief whip Jackson Mthembu has taken a stand.
Shawn Hagedorn says the bigger change needed is to purge the dogmatic leftist policy makers and re-conceiving SA’s economic policies.
Die Burger’s Jan Gerber penned an interesting analysis on how the ANC in parliament is dealing with state-owned SABC, and is cautiously optimistic.
Ed Herbst is puzzled by Jackson Mthembu’s suggestion to reporters in parliament that Hlaudi Motsoeneng is not a deployed cadre.
Ed Herbst takes a satirical look at the anguish the ANC ‘Big Vegetables’ must be feeling as new Tshwane mayor Solly Msimanga upsets the apple cart.
Will the Zuma faction emulate the Mbeki faction and wait until a few days after the election before announcing that Karima Brown will return to the SABC?
At a recent media conference, ANC chief whip Jackson Mthembu said the party doesn’t need proxies at the SABC. Ed Herbst thinks that was a disingenuous statement.
Donwald Pressly says South Africans need to fight both the private and public media houses who threaten the country’s media freedom.
The ANC’s Jackson Mthembu said the SABC was practicing censorship by not broadcasting images of violent anti-state protests.