The politics surrounding transformation obfuscate the urgency of South Africa’s socioeconomic malaise.
Beyond the language of price-fixing and collusion, this type of behaviour by bankers amounts to taking food off the tables of South Africans.
The president is fighting for power. And it’s not just against his deputy for the future leadership of the ANC.
Speaking in code is not the same as being obfuscatory.
AfriForum is a grouping that holds the rights of white Afrikaans speakers as more valid than those of the rest of the people of this country.
‘More than ever, now, it is important for news organisations to dig up the truth’
Maimane’s trip to Israel shows that, without the spectre of a corrupt ANC to pit itself against, the DA struggles to define itself.
Our work is to find and uncover the real story, the real facts that are often elided in the various simple narratives produced for political ends.
When the apartheid state was dissolved, the expectation was that robust policy would ensure that black South Africans would be adequately empowered.
The ANC cannot yet disentangle its ideals and its promises from the internal realpolitik of its leadership battles, such as the clash looming now.