It would be easy to dismiss Cosatu’s public wrangling as a case of internal problems that the trade union federation must sort out internally.
The advent of Mamphela Ramphele in politics is at once being hailed as a decisive shift in the electoral calculus and written off as a quixotic folly.
Secrecy, impropriety and the failure of accountability coil around each other in a triple helix of misgovernance.
Delivering his State of the Nation address on Thursday, the president painted a picture of a country and government that was getting down to work.
Going by the conviction rates, there is a mere one-in-10 chance that the men accused of the rape and murder of Anene Booysen will be convicted.
Apartheid’s economy has been built on cartels; that culture of collusion and criminality has left the deep structure of the siege years in place.
Gwede Mantashe has been forceful when speaking about the impact of teacher strikes following an ANC lekgotla recently.
Patrice Motsepe has signalled a major realignment of the landscape of South African philanthropy.
The ANC has done nothing to act on its 2007 Polokwane resolution to develop a regulatory architecture for party donations.
It has been a long road from the high court to the Supreme Court of Appeal, and then on to the Constitutional Court and back to the high court.