Ivo Vegter, Daily Friend – 12 August 2022 A new report has exposed the ugly truth about South Africa’s liberal media: its nefarious funders seek to advance democracy, defend press freedom, combat corruption, and promote an open society. ‘US government’s National Endowment for Democracy – with @OpenSociety & @luminategroup – have captured South African “liberal” […]
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South Africa has been warned that it faces an ‘Arab Spring’: so what are the chances?
Sandy Africa, Associate Professor, Political Sciences, and Deputy Dean Teaching and Learning (Humanities), University of Pretoria – 26 July 2022 Former South African President Thabo Mbeki recently launched a sharp critique of the governing African National Congress (ANC) for failure to address what it has labelled the triple challenge of poverty, unemployment and inequality. Mbeki, […]
Mass shootings in S.Africa are often over group turf: how to stop the cycle of reprisals
“Competition between groups, especially between street gangs and groups specialising in extortion, appears to have become more acute and more violent.” Guy Lamb, Criminologist / Lecturer, Stellenbosch University – 18 July 2022 In just two days in early July, 25 people were shot dead in four separate incidents at taverns across South Africa. In one […]
‘Dividing line between BRICS and the West increasingly poses a risk to South Africa’
Iran and Argentina have applied for BRICS membership Corné Mulder, FF Plus: International Relations and Cooperation – 29 June 2022 Iran’s possible joining of the BRICS group and growing demands from Russia for active support from BRICS countries against the West are creating a crisis for South Africa. Iran formally requested to become part of […]
Denel likened to a rotting carcass
Armscor has not been a United Nations approved vendor since September defenceWeb – 24 June 2022 In yet another broadside at Denel and its sole shareholder – the South African government – Isaac Mashaba, a regular commentator on government’s achievements and “challenges”, uses The Citizen to claim the State-owned defence and technology conglomerate is living […]
Land Bank’s brutal tactic against farmers
Disturbing allegations of unconstitutional land occupations being instituted by ex 32-battallion soldiers Wouter Wessels, FF Plus MP and chief spokesperson – Finance, 17 June 2022 Land Bank’s alleged use of intimidation tactics to drive struggling farmers off their farms is alarming and unacceptable. The tactic reportedly entails using former soldiers from the 32 Battalion to […]
South Africa is in search of a fairer electoral system. But what’s been tabled is flawed
Dirk Kotze, Professor in Political Science, University of South Africa – 8 June 2022 South Africa is amending its electoral law to make it fairer by enabling citizens to contest provincial and national elections without being forced to join political parties. This follows a 2020 Constitutional Court judgment that found that excluding citizens from being […]
ANC policy papers on key issues facing agriculture and land reform in South Africa
Wandile Sihlobo, Senior Fellow, Department of Agricultural Economics, Stellenbosch University – 31 May 2022 The latest policy discussion document published by the African National Congress (ANC) presents a positive change from the ambiguous agriculture policy the South African governing party has maintained in the recent past. The latest document talks to the primary issues that, […]
South Africa’s state capture commission – after four years, was it worth it?
South Africans want guarantees to prevent a repetition of state capture or extensive corruption in future. Dirk Kotze, Professor in Political Science, University of South Africa – 13 May 2022 South Africa’s judicial commission into state capture, known as the Zondo Commission, recently handed over the fourth part of its voluminous and scathing findings to […]
The desperate state of Eskom
Jonathan Katzenellenbogen, Daily Friend – 11 May 2022 Eskom is in an increasingly desperate state. There is little hope that South Africa will have a secure and reliable electricity supply for years. Yet there is seemingly little urgency from the government for fixing what is a major and binding constraint on the economy. Eskom has […]