BY AKANYANG MEREMENTSI
Where do you start: nationalisation, disrespecting, swearing and even disgust at elders, shooting to kill, and labelling someone a “racist little girl”?
If anyone is to write a biography on Malema – that person would certainly have it both ways. This is because the process, not to forget [...]
Is Malema a “communist capitalist”?
Zille must Zuma Max too
BY AKANYANG MEREMENTSI
President Jacob Zuma had an affair with a woman who was not his wife. They both had a child, and as per cultural norms, Zuma did pay his dues and apologised to South Africa (and probably his wives too — one just wonders how they took the news) with the hope [...]
What the “f***k” is going on in Parliament?
BY AKANYANG MEREMENTSI
You actually did not hear me say this, but write it because some parliamentarian is reported to have told another parliamentarian (possibly the president) exactly that. Now that’s AYOBA!
One says AYOBA because this has never happened in the Mandela time, or even Mbeki time for that matter. And [...]
Zuma should venture down the road less taken
BY LUNGELO MAGUBANE
Robert Frost wrote of two roads that diverged into the woods and how his opting for the one less taken made all the difference. As President Zuma applies the finishing touches to his State of the Nation speech, one hopes that he will use this opportunity to take the people of South Africa [...]
Open the door wider, in anyway possible
BY HLANGANANI GUMBI
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has entered into what should be a new and most exciting decade for politics in South Africa. The DA has grown from a minor opposition party to the efficient and effective official opposition it is today. If the strategists who engineered this immense growth continue with the bold and [...]
Our prez is ignoring climate change peril
The negotiations that will plot the world’s new climate change framework are less than six months away. But you wouldn’t think so if you listened to President Jacob Zuma’s first “State of the Nation” address. This is worrying as climate change should be on the mind of every leader, says shadow environment minister Gareth Morgan.
I’ve become a born-again South African
Africa’s top Digital Citizen Journalist, Khaya Dlanga, writes that he’s recently become a born-again South African. His faith in this country was renewed by the debates he saw, the interest young people showed in politics for the first time. He argues that, for all its imperfections, we live in a new South Africa again.
Zimbabwe’s government of national unity is a failure
Alex Matthews argues that the MDC serves merely as a legitimising mechanism for Zanu PF’s totalitarian agenda. Little wonder, he says, that the country is still falling apart when Zanu PF shamelessly grips onto power. Stalling reforms proposed in the GNU agreement, it’s sent a clear message that it remains the party calling the shots.
Madam Minister, don’t be afraid to keep the coal in the hole
Shadow environment minister Gareth Morgan says the environmental management of mines needs urgent attention. With the sector continuing to externalise many of its costs to the detriment of both human and environmental health, how will water and environmental affairs minister Buyelwa Sonjica, the former minister of minerals and energy, respond to mining’s environmental impact?
ANC will savage any opposition to its bid for perpetual rule
Alex Matthews argues that plans by the ANC to destabilise and distract from opposition leader Helen Zille from fulfilling her duties as premier of the Western Cape shows the contempt that our ruling party has for democracy. He argues that the ANC will brutally undermine any opposition to its bid for perpetual rule.
