Govt sits on 4 000 farms, yet hints at expropriation
Cape Town – While the ANC increasingly hints at land expropriation without compensation, the state is struggling to transfer more than 4 000 farms which have already been bought to their new owners,...
View ArticleSouth Africa’s become a mafia state
The Zuma-Gupta relationship did not evolve spontaneously, writes Elvis Masoga. Folks, could you please fasten your seatbelts and indulge in breathless meditation in anticipation of an extremely...
View ArticleYoung South African Aren’t Apathetic, Just Fed Up with Formal Politics
SA’s youth-led movements such as #FeesMustFall provided a contrasting view to perceptions that young people are apathetic & disinterested in the future of their country. South Africa’s youth-led...
View ArticleBeyond sincerity and forgiveness in South African politics
If politics and lies had to post an update on social media about their relationship status, it would have to read ‘it’s complicated’. And thus it has been for a long time. It’s not so much that they...
View ArticleThe President Who Caused a Recession
The last time South Africa fell into recession, in 2009, it was because of the global financial crisis. This time around, economists and business executives agree, the cause is a person: the president....
View ArticleSA farmers lodge formal genocide complaint against ANC-regime
by Ryan O’Malley EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT. BRUSSELS. South African farmers represented in the Transvaal Agricultural Union have lodged a formal genocide-complaint against the ANC-government for crimes...
View ArticleThe South African Way of Life, ed. by G. H. Calpin; The People of South Africa
by Sarah Gertrude Millin At first sight the editor of The South African Way of Life would seem to have taken on a self-defeating task. The book is a companion volume to a series of similar volumes on...
View ArticleSouth African Youth Fed Up With Formal Politics
As in the United States and many other countries, the rate of participation of those aged fifteen to twenty-five in South African politics is disappointing. Some observers had breathlessly anticipated...
View ArticleDemocratic Alliance in hot water for misuse of Proudly SA logo
The Democratic Alliance (DA) finds itself in trouble for the misuse of the Proudly South Africa logo, as pictured above. The party ran an advert featuring the above picture recently. The picture was...
View ArticleSouth Africa needs full disclosure on ‘Gupta syndicate’– Pravin Gordhan fires...
Former finance minister Pravin Gordhan has rejected the recent apology by London-based PR firm Bell Pottinger‚ which had worked for the controversial Gupta family‚ labelling it a “pathetic cover-up”...
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