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Zuma’s corrosive legacy is self-inflicted

Article Staff Reporter - 16 Feb 2018

He worked his way up from poverty and imprisonment to become the country’s leader but he will be remembered for a presidency that hurt the people

Zuma: From unifier to divider

Article Niren Tolsi & Paddy Harper - 15 Dec 2017

Daddy’s decade has seen resolutions gather dust and the party left in tatters

SA’s democratic foundations shaken

Article Eusebius McKaiser - 7 Apr 2017

There is a more dangerous reality here that we all have to take extremely seriously.

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Unlike Trevor Manuel, Pravin Gordhan cannot retire

Analysis Thebe Mabanga - 31 Oct 2016

The thanks Pravin Gordhan gets for his loyalty is a spit in the face from Zuma, in the form of the fraud charges against him.

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Maharaj dismisses alleged involvement in spy tape collusion

Article Sapa - 28 Sep 2014

Presidency Spokesperson Mac Maharaj rebuffs Mzi Khumalo's claims on the spy tapes as 'wild speculation'.

Polokwane decisions yield a mixed bag of results

Article Staff Reporter - 14 Dec 2012

The ANC took resolutions at its Polokwane conference in 2007 to enhance both the party's and the government's service delivery.

Editorial: Feel it. The day of reckoning is here

Article Editorial - 14 Dec 2012

The Polokwane conference taught us what we thought were the physics of the 21st-century ANC.

Jacob Zuma is confident of his innocence

Article Staff Reporter - 13 Apr 2012

Floyd Shivambu's call for charges to be reinstated against Jacob Zuma smacks of opportunism, says the Young Communist League's <b>Buti Manamela</b>.

Zuma is playing a dangerous game

Article Staff Reporter - 23 Mar 2012

President Jacob Zuma's urge to curtail the courts' powers could have disastrous consequences

Mbeki’s burden will be Zuma’s too

Article Staff Reporter - 24 Feb 2009

Wiith Mbeki's persona no longer clouding the issue, Zuma will still have to answer the question: How much consultation is enough consultation?

The infantilisation of politics

Article Staff Reporter - 21 Oct 2008

Julius Malema's rhetoric is mere flatulence unleashed across the land.

A legacy under threat

Article Staff Reporter - 18 Jul 2008

Mandela is 90. But the celebration of a life of leadership, service and generosity is mixed with the sour taste of a legacy being polluted.

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