Stocktake at the end of a momentous year shows that the ruling party holds all the cards but has little room for manoeuvre
In part two of a series on the lives of farm dwellers, Tshepiso Mabula ka Ndongeni finds a community haunted by the scourge of eviction
The Western Cape’s Debbie Schäfer missed the point about racism and the North West’s Mmaphefo Matsemela undermined the dignity of a young man
The president was answering questions before parliament, where he also told the EFF to allow the courts to decide on the matter of the CR17 bank statements
MPs can’t seem to stop the house from degenerating into screaming matches, even during virtual sittings, as exhibited when the deputy president answered questions in the NCOP on Wednesday.
Land ownership and its equitable distribution has floundered. Changes to a section of the constitution and the expropriation act are now before parliament, but do they offer any solution?
EFF leader Julius Malema says the party is preparing to govern in many municipalities from next year. It is also launching a programme to defend the rights of farm workers
The lack of compassion towards Brendin Horner’s family is the failure of identity politics
When employees do not give their best, it is the organisation that suffers the most. In the case of government this directly affects citizens
The party and AfriForum staged protests outside the magistrate’s court during the bail application by two men accused of killing a farm manager in the eastern Free State
In response to Ryno Geldenhuys’s piece Under Mbali Ntuli the DA would offer South Africans a new political home, published in the Mail & Guardian on 13 October
With reference to Eusebius McKaiser “The DA’s next leader should have a diverse political toolkit” (Mail&Guardian, September 23)
We’ve tried leftism for long enough and what we have to show for it is corruption and mismanagement, when what we need is jobs and education. Is it time to try out a Mashaba-esque version of right-wing politics?
But in the battle of John and Mbali, the way things are going, the party will crucify the better option
Kenny Motsamai, a parolee who is also an EFF MP, could be sent back to jail if correctional services finds he violated his parole conditions
Under the spotlight will be the Economic Freedom Fighters’ behaviour at the State of the Nation address and during the public enterprise department’s budget speech
What we want: Ramaphosa to cough up a hairball, racists in hair shirts and consumer boycotts that don’t turn hairy
The party’s response to journalists and those who speak against them reveal a consistent pattern of misogyny
This latest racist hair fiasco is just one more thing that all the darkies in me are tired of defending and explaining
With coalition politics on the rise, particularly in local government, this kind of court case is likely to become more common
The party’s vision for Eskom seems to be one designed to benefit vested interests rather than the greater good
ANC MPs test the EFF’s disruptive tactics on the leader of the Red Berets in Sona reply
Apartheid’s last president walks back comments that definition was a Soviet plot
To improve the South African economy, we need to institute practical measures to effect change
The party’s new national chairperson takes over from Dali Mpofu, who had to recuse himself to allow him to juggle his schedule as an advocate
After a scuffle between a member of the EFF’s security and delegates on Saturday, Malema warned members not to air security concerns in front of media
And their travails strengthen the scoundrel hand of the anti-Ramaphosa wing of the ruling party
But the court has choice words for the EFF leader, saying his reference to loss of life was an extravagant juvenile rant
The EFF leader admits he bought the vehicle but denies there was a link to the now defunct bank
The president says a decision by the Constitutional Court will put an end to a “vituperative” public debate
hree EFF MPs advanced towards the public enterprises minister in a ‘threatening manner’
The party was found to be in breach of the Electoral Code when it failed to stop its supporters from harassing and threatening journalist Karima Brown