Increasingly, we are looking to senior members of the ANC to put the country before their political careers and bank balances.
After decades of smarmy evasions, it is breathtaking sophistry that Parliament refers to the Promotion of Access to Information Act for transparency.
We ask Minister Blade Nzimande, all 26 vice-chancellors and every faculty dean to please declare publicly their views and policies on plagiarism.
The way the Russian nuclear deal was handled can only be to ensure a politically driven process, unhampered by technical or financial considerations.
The voters’ patience is waning, even turning violent.
All the whitewashing after Jackie Selebi’s funeral looks suspiciously like another attack from Zuma’s circle on the National Prosecuting Authority.
Since May 2008 the government has done, on a net basis, nothing about xenophobia. The fine words are more than cancelled out by the lack of action.
Water scarcity is here and we need to act now, as this is more difficult to solve than the electricity crisis.
Two decades of struggle to move away from a South Africa in which the executive and minority interests reign supreme may have been in vain.
Since 2008 when wet coal led to the country’s mines being shut down, it has been clear that the country has been in an energy crisis.