As the South African state has become more authoritarian, it has also increasingly come to believe that the law is there to be bent to its own ends.
Nowhere else is it so evident that the ANC is its own opposition – and probably its own worst enemy.
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.