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The State of the Nation address is an opportunity for the president to pronounce on the government’s performance for the past year and on its...
It is not some kind of counterweight to the ANC, Black First Land First, the Economic Freedom Fighters, or any other movement campaigning for redress...
Adriaan Basson, in his book Zuma Exposed, first used the word “bullshit” to describe the president’s and others’ obfuscatory or...
The tsunami of fake news, half-fake news, secret propaganda, “black ops” and the like that is sweeping the world could hardly have swelled so...
The Democratic Alliance, in its explanation of Mmusi Maimane’s photo-op with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, says its...
Last week, we published a front-page story that did not mention the words ANC, Zuma or Gupta. Instead, it showed the prospect of an apartheid-era...
The sporadic and phlegmatic attempts by the government to look into compensation for the gains of corporate South Africa during apartheid have thus...
Perhaps it is because there have been so many of them that the thought of the ANC’s annual January 8 statement barely raises more than a pained...
The department of basic education’s intention to begin giving school principals competency tests as a condition of their employment is laudable...
There is a particular injustice in watching young men dancing in the afternoon traffic in the hope that someone will be sufficiently entertained to...
Last week we confessed our bewilderment at all the vicious lawfare going on – if it’s not in the Constitutional Court, it’s in one of the...
The South African Jewish Board of Deputies takes the South African Human Rights Commission to court over a report it says was tampered with in order...
