Ed Herbst: An abscess lanced? Fransman’s two-edged resignation.
In a blow for the DA in the Western Cape, Marius Fransman, the ANC Western Cape chairman, announced his resignation from the provincial legislature.
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Alliance fracture: SACP Cape slams ANC greed, considers contesting election
The SACP highlighted the fractured leadership of the alliance in the Western Cape, calling it “weak” and “reckless”.
Definitive 2016 SA election guide: RW Johnson on what results actually mean
In this definitive election guide RW Johnson says that the DA does not have an easy path forward into 2019.
Ed Herbst: Strike a woman, strike a rock
Former journalist Ed Herbst says the Khwezi protest was a defining moment in South African politics. Strike a woman, strike a rock.
Herbst: Capetonians live in a different world, proof’s in delivery
Voters in Cape Town have a decision to make. Do they want it to be run like the Buffalo City Municipality or do they want it to be run as it is being run now?
Herbst: ANC & Western Cape farmers – an affair set to spark food riots
Across the political spectrum, the warnings become ever more urgent. The spectre of food riots is a probability more than a possibility, writes Ed Herbst.
‘Suspended’ Fransman fights for his job. Heads to court.
Marius Fransman will bring an application in the Western Cape High Court on Wednesday in a bid to get back his job as the ANC’s provincial leader.
Herbst: The offer still stands, Mr Fransman
The news that Marius Fransman has been reinstated as Western Cape leader of the ANC takes Ed Herbst back to a letter which was published in the Cape Argus in 2009.
Herbst: History of protecting sexual predators exposed, shatters ANC myths
Veteran investigative journalist Ed Herbst shares in meticulous detail how the attempted cover up of Marius Fransman’s dalliances is more rule than exception.
RW Johnson: Imperialism heads South, 2016 sees it end. Roll on 2017.
Former Oxford University don RW Johnson has yet again applied his mind to what could happen in 2016, this time looking for the good news story.