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Sipho Hlongwane
Sipho Hlongwane is The Daily Vox’s acting managing editor. A published author, columnist and reporter by training School of Hard Knocks, he has covered some of South Africa’s most vivid protest marches, wildcat strikes and press conferences. His scariest assignments were for fancy women’s magazines. He obsesses over football and popular music for fun.
2018 Fifa World Cup: For Africa, there were positive lessons to take
For the first time, the tie-breaker for knockout round qualifying came down to the disciplinary records of two otherwise evenly-matched sides
Fascism and the EFF: Or how to gaslight the media
If Julius Malema is a fascist, and his party is a mere extension of his fascism, then everything they say can be dismissed outright, can it not?
Land: Why so afraid of a debate?
The land question can be avoided no longer – it is of crucial economic, social and legal importance.
The President’s Keepers and state capture: black intellectualism needs to focus
South Africa has an undernourished literary tradition, where even among the sophisticated one may find confusion over written work and writers.
SA rises from Bell Pottinger ashes
The damage done by state capture does not blind us to the fact that the democratic project belongs to all citizens
Bell Pottinger did not invent SA’s racialised poverty and inequality
The good news is that South Africans have chosen to go forwards – that choice is evident in the rejection of state capture from all quarters.
Mzwanele Manyi makes a mockery of media transformation
Transformation is not a magical wand that excludes black owners from playing by the same rules as everybody else.
ANALYSIS: 2016 – the year the ANC failed to keep up with changing SA politics
The local level is the coalface of government work; it’s where failure and state capture hurts the most.
The battle cry for land is spreading
The ANC, having struggled to rectify the theft of land, finds that it is firmly on the people’s agenda.
Pravin for president?
Who has the correct struggle credentials, public service record, broad public support and has become the face of the fight for good governance?
Why this is the end for Zuma
The state capture report is like a Pandora’s Box for the president: soon all the dirty secrets will tumble out, and the vultures are already circling.
Dead man walking: Why the state capture could finally be the end of Jacob Zuma
The state capture report released on Wednesday did not contain any good news for the president.
NEWS ANALYSIS: The king’s men prod at Humpty Dumpty’s shattered pieces
The party has decried factionalism at every national and policy conference in the last decade and has done nothing about it.
ANC’s human rights legacy lies in tatters
With the ICC exit, Jacob Zuma is hell-bent on destroying his party’s international justice record.
Zuma just threw away the best shot we had at International Criminal Court reform
What does South Africa know about Bashir’s war in Darfur that the ICC prosecutors don’t know?