ITS been quite a week in SA politics. Not only did we see the sudden passing of former deputy President David Mabuza, but the DA walked out of the much-vaunted "National Dialogue", labeling the event as an 'extravagant and costly affair'. The party stopped short of leaving the coalition governme...

IT WAS inevitable that the opposition Democratic Alliance would arrive at its own Rubicon. The saga involving party stalwart Helen Zille, what she said or didn't say, what was meant or not meant, the affectations of white liberal insiders, the embarrassing grand old colonial edifice and all its p...

This is the email I sent out yesterday: I WAS BANNED ON BLACK WEDNESDAY Today, I awoke to find out that I had been banned by Politicsweb. Being banned on "Black Wednesday" is more than a little ironic. The centre-right political site, which carries commentary from political parties and commentato...