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By Jonathan Katzenellenbogen, Daily Friend – 1 December 2021 For South Africa in 2022 the overriding force in politics will be the continued decline of the ANC.  The signs of demise are everywhere – achieving only 46 percent at the local polls, failing policies, run-down cities, and collapsing state-owned enterprises. Attempts at prediction often fall […]

The governments of South Africa, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States of America, along with the European Union, have announced a new ambitious, long-term Just Energy Transition Partnership to support South Africa’s decarbonisation efforts. The Partnership aims to accelerate the decarbonisation of South Africa’s economy, with a focus on the electricity system, […]

HYPOCRISY – a person who feigns some desirable or publicly approved attitude, especially one whose private life, opinions, or statements belie his or her public statements. GoSouth – 20 October 2021 As we head for elections and the DA boast endlessly about their ‘wonderful governance’, many in the City of Cape Town do not agree […]

Helen Zille 3 September 2021 “All Truth passes through three phases, first it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, third it is accepted as being self-evident.” This profound insight comes from German philosopher, Arthur Schopenhauer, and is as true today as it was in the 19th Century. South Africa is a living testament to this […]

defenceWeb – 25 August 2021 Defence and Military Veterans Minister Thandi Modise told a sitting of the National Assembly that there is a need to consider deploying a special “intermediary force” that will be trained and equipped to deal with domestic violence and unrest situations. Modise said this when the National Assembly considered reports of […]

Terence Corrigan, Daily Friend – 30 July 2021 The failure of the ANC and EFF to agree on the form of the proposed amendment to Section 25 of the Constitution has led some optimists to conclude that this is the moment in which the EFF is isolated and abandoned. The ANC under President Ramaphosa, so […]

There is a severe challenge to the “normative core” – the underlying values and ethical principles that hold a society together Richard Calland, Associate Professor in Public Law, University of Cape Town and Mabel Dzinouya Sithole, Programme Officer – Building Bridges, University of Cape Town 22 July 2021 The coronavirus pandemic has placed the leadership […]

The ANC has no interest in individual liberty; it is the enemy of freedom. Judge Rex van Schalkwyk, FW de Klerk Foundation Panel of Contributors – 26 April 2021 The trouble with political slogans is that they are meaningless. We have seen it with the communist and socialist policies, enacted in the name of the […]

Stef Terblanche, FW de Klerk Foundation – 8 April 2021 South Africans continue watching with mixed feelings ranging from anxiety to amusement the power struggle for control of the ruling ANC playing out between two factions – one aligned with President Cyril Ramaphosa, the other with former president Jacob Zuma and ANC Secretary-General (SG) Ace […]