Government misreads its people on Covid-19 – Steven Friedman
Government has resorted to statistical fear-mongering on Covid-19, because public faith in it has all but dissolved, argues Professor Steven Friedman.
Steven Friedman
The voter conundrum unpacked – Steven Friedman
Political fundi, Steven Friedman, says the worse the ANC does, the better the Zuma group’s chances are of removing Ramaphosa at the ruling party’s national conference in 2022.
Ugly, dirty, misleading – Elections 2019
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.
ANC – a lost liberation movement on the slide; Steven Friedman
The African National Congress celebrates its 107th birthday this year against a backdrop of an election campaign it’s likely to win handily – but which is likely to mask its longer-term decline.
Political analyst Fikeni: Guptas were just over-excited, grotesque amateurs
Political analyst Somadoda Fikeni says the Gupta family played an amateurish game in trying to capture the state.
Media reports say Cosatu has expelled Vavi
The leadership of the Congress of South African Trade Unions, the country’s biggest labour federation and an ally of the ruling party, voted to expel General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi, a person familiar with the situation said.
David Gemmell: Lie, the Beloved Country – Joost’s biographer swings at a national cancer
The deeper focus of this piece is exposing a cancer that has taken grip of South Africa. Telling a lie, if it gets what you want, is becoming acceptable.