"With someone as incompetent as Shaun Abrahams around, you have to be very naive to think the NPA does its work without fear or favour."
"The ugly reality, however, is that political violence has subsided since 1994 but has not been eliminated"
"We must ask difficult questions about the underlying drivers of violence if we are to eliminate gratuitous violence in society"
"If we are honest, a key appointment is not merely, or at all, about what Zuma wants"
"It was a bald-faced lie. Nothing in his body language suggested an attempt at humour"
"I marvel, for example, at how ANC comrades have entire conferences about phrases such as ‘the national question’."
"It is a question of when, and not if, Zuma falls, politically speaking."
Constitutional delinquent: Bathabile Dlamini is part of a political culture in an unresponsive government. (Photo: Ashraf Hendricks/GroundUp)
Readers write in about SARS, land politics, and Eusebius McKaiser.
My gender is one part of me; it is not everything of me. I’d be a fool to limit myself.
"Many of us from urban centres condescend to our fellow rural citizens."
We hate having our most deeply held beliefs challenged or falsified. Can we learn to disagree?
Power FM’s talent drain continues to fuel rumours that the station is being mismanaged.
New Economic Freedom Fighters member Kenny Kunene has slammed critics of his political credentials, saying "at least I am doing something".
Eusebius McKaiser was in fine form on his first day as a presenter at a new Gauteng radio station.
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/ 19 February 2013
From the Oscar Pistorius shooting to an interview with Chester Missing and Eusebius McKaiser, we have some serious and some fun.
If you missed our live video chat about Zuma’s State of the Nation address with Eusebius McKaiser and Chester Missing, watch the full version here.
Social commentator and Twitter celebrity Eusebius McKaiser talks about race, his favourite author and why academic writing often sucks.
The Democratic Alliance needs to realise that people do not vote with their heads but with their hearts, says <b>Eusebius McKaiser</b>.
No one likes an anticlimax. But, sadly, Justice Minister Jeff Radebe does not care about leaving us unsatisfied, writes Eusebius McKaiser.
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/ 20 January 2012
He and his followers espouse ‘economic freedom’ to drum up public support for their own ends.
Last week the Constitutional Court proved that it sometimes feels the pressure of the political context in which it exists.
White people must find an ethical way to live with the shame of a racist past they still benefit from, writes <b>Eusebius McKaiser</b>.
The calls for South Africa’s state security boss to resign are both mischievous and misplaced, writes <b>Eusebius McKaiser</b>.
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/ 24 January 2011
Want matriculants with incisive reasoning and excellent problem-solving ability? Join the club.
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/ 29 November 2010
Contradictory statements reveal a communist successfully contained by the mainstream
Labour federation won’t go it alone even though its economic policies contradict those of the ANC.
It is probably mean to be disparaging about the chances of newlyweds staying together long after the honeymoon bliss has worn off.
If someone was convicted of murder but later granted amnesty for their action, does that mean we should no longer call him or her a murderer?
There is no hierarchy of prejudices and we must tackle the homophobia that has taken hold in government, writes <b>Eusebius McKaiser</b>.
Political language, unbeknown to many of our politicians, betrays the state of our politics in stark, naked terms, argues <b>Eusebius McKaiser.</b>
A new US foreign policy is an opportunity for Barack Obama to eliminate Africa’s marginalisation.