Senior leaders in KwaZulu-Natal say scandal findings are too big to shake off
ANC cadres used the Covid-19 pandemic for self-enrichment under the guise of BBBEE
The state’s failure to act as a source of moral or political authority creates a vacuum that ‘seductive’ populist movements are happy to fill
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If South Africa is moving from being a dominant-party system to a more vibrant, multiparty democracy, as these elections indicate, then coalitions are going to have to become the norm
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