The West does not have a moral claim over African security. African states retain the right to choose partners according to their own historical interests. A multipolar world means nothing if African states must still ask Western permission before selecting allies, building armies, nationalising resources, regulating NGOs or rejecting political models that serve foreign capital more than African people
Although it no longer has an outright majority, and faces new challenges, the party has not lost its belief in democracy and the rule of law
The president said slurs against the judiciary, sabotage against institutions and the findings of the Zondo commission showed the need to protect democracy
When the ANC introduced the Amendment Bill, it must have been apparent it would lose, having failed to secure an agreement with any other party beforehand
His blanket apology did not cast him as a man of principle but as a man of cowardice