Why is the government so intent on dodging questions about the splurge on ‘security’ at President Jacob Zuma’s rural homestead?
On Monday, the long lie that is the ANC pre-conference embargo on "leadership contestation" finally ends.
Many workers now believe violence is justified, indeed necessary. Some, notably in the transport union Satawu.
For all its failings, the military remains effective in one regard: instilling fear. And striking workers at Marikana felt that fear this week.
The "global war on terror" and its awful sequelae seem very far away to most South Africans.
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.