Those who fought a long, hard war for a nonracist, nonsexist country cannot have imagined that one day they would be asking the president to resign.
“In this new phase of our struggle for democracy and freedom, the voices of giants like Ahmed ‘Kathy’ Kathrada sound ever more imperatively."
‘He wasn’t afraid to speak to power’
All of this week’s tumult traced back to the Guptas.
The mother’s anger has somehow been treated like a sinful indulgence, as though women are supposed to respond with a smile in the face of provocation.
Presumably out of the best of motives, World Bank’s investors have put money into a company whose behaviour looks like it is fleecing the poor.
There is a refreshing honesty in Belamant’s statements outside the court. “We’re not a government: we are a company. We work for profit,” he said.
If Moyane’s motive was not to improve the service or its business of tax collection, we have to ask what his real motives might be.
Qwelane’s utterances are at last being examined legally to decide whether his insistence on his right to “free expression” has caused harm.
The court has instructed government to consider how projects would contribute to climate change.