Since independence, Swaziland has tried to square the circle by running a modern democracy and an absolute monarchy in parallel.
IT seems Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan had offered an agreement in principle, but details about the loans conditions remain to be worked out.
Unlike Julius Malema, who is shivering in exile, a Vavi operating outside the alliance would pose a far greater threat than he does on the inside.
The truth is that we do not know what Chris Hani would have done, or become, had he lived.
It is true that some ANC leaders like to interfere with government affairs from time to time.
The NPA says the prosecution was let down by unreliable witnesses, chiefly the two brought to identify the police officers seen assaulting Tatane.
Waterkloof air force base hasn’t received so many body bags since the Angolan war. It is an unmitigated military and foreign-policy disaster.
Human rights in their broad and interdependent sense must be the lodestar of both development and security policy.
When Malusi Gigaba became minister of public enterprises, he told anyone who would listen he intended to keep a firm shareholder hand on the tiller.
When South African foreign policy goes wrong, we often hear about it immediately.