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/ 20 November 2009
The opposition’s new rock star has been making waves in Parliament with his can-do attitude, writes Marianne Thamm.
Perhaps we should view the recent volley of insults about self-confessed womanising and wild whore libidos as a lancing of a national boil.
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/ 20 November 2008
People often tell DA leader Helen Zille that she is in the ”wrong party”. ”It’s madness,” she says. ”Of course I’m not Â- there’s no alternative.”
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/ 20 November 2008
Bantu Holomisa elicited frenzied cheering at Cope’s recent national convention, underscoring his continued popularity with disaffected black voters.
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/ 19 November 2008
Many charge that the ID is more of a one-person lobby group than an opposition party, but De Lille counters that it has grown both in membership terms
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/ 18 November 2008
Marianne Thamm, Open Society Research Fellow for 2008, reports on new electoral volatility that poses a threat to the ANC’s overwhelming majority.
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/ 18 November 2008
"What mobilised people for Zuma was the way he was fired as deputy president. People think it was done because he’s a Zulu".
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/ 7 November 2008
Four provinces are gearing up for possible Congress of the People governments after a week of campaigning by leaders of the new party.
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/ 12 October 2008
The growing flexibility of voter attitudes highlighted by research is good news for ANC rebels planning a new party to fight next year’s elections.
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/ 13 November 2007
The European and American tradition of the political novel is deeply entrenched. From Emile Zola to Gore Vidal, the perceptions and attitudes of citizens in these smug old democracies have long been shaped. South Africa too has a rich history of political fiction, from Alan Paton to Nadine Gordimer, André Brink, Njabulo Ndebele and Lewis Nkosi. But there is, of course, a vast difference between the literary political novel and the "novel of politics", writes Marianne Thamm.