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AfriForum chastises SA govt at UN over farm murders
By Henk Maree Ernst Roets questions why govt unable to prioritise the combating of this type of crime AfriForum chastises South African government before the United Nations AfriForum’s Deputy CEO,...
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God, Spies and Lies: How journalists, spooks and politicians shaped South Africa
BY MARIANNE THAMM While confirmation that the charismatic and influential former Sunday Times editor, Tertius Myburgh, was a voluntary spy for the apartheid government is one of the more sensational...
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Politicole: Is Illegal And Mass Migration Retribution For Slavery?
By NICOLE BURROWS I was having an interesting conversation with one of my mentors a few weeks back. Our discussions have always been immensely thought-provoking, stretching my thinking way beyond the...
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The myth of white privilege
By Sara Gon Sara Gon says the term has become a method of attack and insult in contemporary SA politics There are a number of myths perpetuated in South African politics. A myth is a “widely held but...
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South Africa debates taboo question: Was Mandela a sellout?
By Erin Conway-Smith, Global Post JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Nelson Mandela is known by many epithets: freedom fighter, anti-apartheid hero, global icon. But two years after his death, a heated...
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SA’s social cohesion ‘hangs on thread’
By Molaole Montsho EFF leader Julius Malema. File picture: Siphiwe Sibeko Rustenburg – Reconciliation is futile without economic emancipation, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) said on Wednesday....
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The Dangerous Game of Identity Politics: How the Black Community Continues to...
By Solomon Comission Far too many Black folks will vote for their worst enemy, if he or she looks like them. That’s why identity politics, which masquerades as a Black Power strategy, winds up...
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Zuma asked to apologize to South African women for ‘sexist’ comments
Zuma and 3 of his wives Newsweek – South Africa’s opposition party has accused President Jacob Zuma of insulting the nation’s women after he reportedly made comments interpreted as sexist. Zuma, who...
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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,...
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South 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...
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Young 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...
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Beyond 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...
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The 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....
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SA 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...
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The 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...
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South 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...
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Democratic 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...
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South 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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