Cosatu’s conference must be energised by the need to find a response to the crisis at SA’s mines, rather than enervated by ANC factional politics.
In 1994, our leaders, be they political, business or labour, inspired us as they fashioned the way forward. Now they are conspicuous by their absence.
There’s been a lot of talk of leadership lately, at conferences in Sandton and among ordinary South Africans. Much of that talk is about its absence.
The Institute of Race Relations argued in a report this week, that grants have been crucial to improved living standards over the past decade.
Julius Malema may not have an organised mass base outside the ANC, but he is a past master at going where there is pain.
President Jacob Zuma’s appointments to the prosecution service have poisoned South Africa’s sensitive criminal justice system.
The new SA, was founded on the basis that those who had benefited from privilege in the past would pay to fund the reconstruction of the country.
With Bobby Motaung in court, the Hawks may now begin to unravel the tangle of corruption that has made Mpumalanga a byword for gangster politics.
SA’s relationship with the US is nothing if not complicated and the ambivalence was on display as Hillary Clinton danced her way around the country.
Zuma Inc has become a source of controversy as the nation questions the trading of political favours for private – if philanthropic – interests.