What South Africa needs is an approach that places violence against women at the heart of social policy.
Cosatu’s relevance is ebbing away and if this trend continues, it will be a federation for unions of petit-bourgeois government employees.
Had Zimbabwe enjoyed a truly free and fair election this week, Zanu-PF might well have won.
The scope for sleaze, patronage and outright corruption, of course, is proportional to the scale of the spending.
Pius Langa’s legacy cannot be reduced to a historical exhibit in the museum of an achieved democracy.
The arms deal may be old news, but corruption is at the centre of the national agenda as never before.
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.