SOUTH AFRICA'S corrupt legal authority Halton Cheadle is at it again. Readers may remember the erstwhile 'labour czar', a man who in 2010 sought to determine a labour court decision in favour of his own client and business associates, in the process shooting down the TRC Report and inter alia alt...
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JSC religious and political ‘inquisition’ gets the middle finger
READ: Victory for civil society after the reopening of Judicial Service Commission judge interviews
Or Else, Dr Nie and the coming of the Warlords
IT WAS a series of 'inflammatory speeches' made outside former president Jacob Zuma's estate in Nkandla which had initially lead to the suspension of Carl Niehaus’s ANC membership on 7 July 2021. At a press briefing flanked by camouflage wearing cadres of uMkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans Associ...
You have a right to defend our country from the insurrectionists
PRESIDENT RAMAPHOSA alleges that we are experiencing unprecedented acts of sedition intended to destabilize and disestablish South Africa via economic sabotage and insurrection. This week's civil unrest was "nothing less than a deliberate, co-ordinated and well-planned attack on our democracy," h...
This is not a bread riot, this is Zuma’s Stalingrad strategy redux
AFTER keeping millions of landless and dispossessed citizens in abject poverty for decades, by stealing money meant for poverty relief, it appears Jacob Zuma may be having the last laugh from jail. The sizeable ranks of unemployed are now his willing foot-soldiers in a political game many refer t...
There is no vaccine for climate change
CLIMATE SCIENTISTS have begun talking about a strategic 'managed retreat' as a response to climate change. This retreat they say is not an admission of defeat, but rather entails "a coordinated movement of people and buildings away from risks, which, in the context of climate change, are approach...
