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.
Why class is more important than race
Cilliers Brink advocates a paradigm-shift from that of racial competition to social cohesion, arguing that a cohesion-centred paradigm in our society, rooted in Constitutional values, can achieve so more to channel the human and financial resources of the wealthy in aid of the poor than the ANC (and COPE) model of a racial tug-of-war.
Election result was a victory for the struggle
An ANC supporter celebrates his party’s election victory, exploring its ramifications and and identifying it as the legacy of struggle heroes like Chief Albert Luthuli, Pixley kaSeme, ZK Matthews, Oliver Tambo, Walter Sisulu and Nelson Mandela.
