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.
Faustian bargains are the order of the day when producing news.
Cosatu seems to have forgotten the role of the unions in bringing down apartheid.
Understandably, then, the battle continues in Parliament, in the form of a no-confidence vote.
The president has dumped those he doesn’t need anymore, including Cosatu and the SACP. He knows where his support lies, and he will pander to it.
The director general of the treasury, Lungisa Fuzile, has given a shining example of what a public servant should be like.
The ANC must take responsibility for constructing a class of people who depend on corruption in the state for their own advancement.