It is successive ANC governments that have allowed a culture of waste, corruption and nepotism to fester under their watch.
The water crisis in the Western Cape is just a small taste of what awaits us.
We have seen the likes of this so often that we no longer bother to make the comparison with the forced evictions and resettlements of apartheid.
Now the ANC’s official allies, the South African Communist Party and trade union federation Cosatu, have turned against Zuma too.
Whistle-blowers get crushed by big companies who prosecute them forever. They need protection.
Helping endangered women should start with the police’s attention to the problem.
The government’s consistent failure to deliver basic services timeously, and its failure to communicate effectively, sets the course of protests.
We should be asking serious questions about everything Joemat-Pettersson did while in office and we should certainly be probing the oil sale.
Democracy has to grow and change. Democracy must be deepened.
The shortage of adequate support networks compounds this problem for black players not in the national team.