Zimbabwe is heading for elections on July 31 and every indication is of a poll that will be not only shambolic, but intrinsically unfair.
When Eskom’s last build cycle ended in the early 1990s, the utility restructured and redeployed experienced engineering staff to operations.
No president of the democratic era has been as willing to rearrange the Cabinet deck as Jacob Zuma, who moves ministers around roughly once a year.
None of those many Mandelas fighting over his personal legacy has, in all this, shown any sign of being deserving of it.
How did the government decide that it would spend more than R200-million on President Jacob Zuma’s private home?
SA’s highest court, without staking out any position on Zimbabwe’s land process, has shown the SADC a most unflattering image in the mirror.
With little more than a week until United States President Barack Obama arrives in South Africa, the build-up is strangely muted.
Producing the race card when you run out of rational arguments is hardly a novelty in South Africa’s political domains.
The revelations about the Prism programme, which links NSA computers to Google, Facebook and Apple, among others, matter to South Africa.
Lawfare over the Constitution is among the most consequential features of our current political environment.